"The Devil is Coming" is full of strength, and director Jiang Wen used a unique perspective to subversively adapt You Fengwei's original work "Survival". The film points the finger at the weaknesses of the Chinese people, resets the expression of the relationship between people and war, and injects more sense of distress into the visual story. It has become a benchmark for Chinese films, and wherever it is at the top of the list, there must be "The Devil is Coming".
It's been 24 years in the blink of an eye, let's take a look at the past and present changes in the actors in "The Devil is Coming", some people may be "disabled", but some people have successfully "counterattacked". When looking back at the changes of these actors, we can't help but sigh: time is indeed a double-edged sword.
1] Ma Dasan (actor: Jiang Wen).
Ma Dasan is a kind Chinese farmer in the film, someone threw a sack containing Japanese soldiers into his house, the villagers drew lots, Ma Dasan drew it, and Ma Dasan came to kill the Japanese soldiers, but he hid the Japanese soldiers on the Great Wall. In the end, the villagers sent the Japanese soldiers back, but they were killed, and Ma Dasan was also beheaded by the Japanese soldiers he saved.
Jiang Wen graduated from Chinese opera in 1984, and entered the China Youth Art Theater in the same year, starring in excellent plays such as "Family Events" and "The Gray Tale of the Caucasus". He is well-known to the audience for his starring works such as "Furong Town", "Spring Peach" and "Red Sorghum", as well as directorial works such as "Sunny Day" and "One Step Away".
Although the number of films he directed is far less than that of Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige and others, in his consciousness, the artistry of the film is the most important, and it is the first thing to express his own ideas.
2] Kozaburo Hanaya (actor: Teruyuki Kagawa).
The Japanese soldiers were thrown into Ma Dasan's house in a sack. At first, he was determined to die for his country, but he was sent back to the Japanese army by the villagers, and he sent a few bags of food to the villagers with his boss, and then slaughtered the village bloodily while the villagers were unprepared. After the defeat, he became a prisoner of the Kuomintang army, and was ordered by the Kuomintang officer to execute Ma Dasan, who broke into the prisoner camp to take revenge.
Teruyuki Kagawa, a Japanese actor, has been nominated for Best Supporting Actor six times at the Japan Film Awards. played the role of the dumb as the second actor in "Warm", and won the Best Actor Award at the 16th Tokyo International Film Festival, and became a topic of conversation in the film industry together with the heroine Shinobu Terashima.
In August 2022, according to the "Weekly New Trend" magazine, Teruyuki Kagawa sexually harassed a female public relations in 2019, and in addition, it was also revealed by "Weekly Wenchun", revealing that he was drunk at the 2018 drama celebration, during which he shot at a female staff member and hit the other party in the head. Subsequently, he was terminated by a number of companies and lost his identity as a spokesperson.
3] Dong Hanchen (actor: Yuan Ding).
He was a Japanese interpreter, and was tied up with the Japanese soldiers and thrown to Ma Dasan's house, the Japanese soldier Hanaya Kozaburo was determined to die at first, while the translator Dong Hanchen used the language barrier to fight for a chance to survive, and then persuaded Ma Dasan to send Hanaya and him to the Japanese military police station in exchange for food, but this move made the whole village miserable. In the end, Japan surrendered, and Dong Hanchen was executed as a traitor.
The actor Yuan Ding, a native of Changchun, Jilin, went to Japan to study in his early years, was proficient in Japanese, and later studied in Japan and entered NHK TV to work as a director. Yuan Ding is a very talented person, who has shot many high-quality documentaries and feature films, and was invited by Jiang Wen to return to China briefly in 1999 and participated in the filming of "The Devil is Coming".
Over the years, Yuan Ding may not have appeared frequently in everyone's field of vision, whether this is his dedication to his family, or is quietly precipitating deeper acting skills, if this is the truth, then everyone can look forward to it, looking forward to what kind of new works he will bring.
4] Yu'er (actor: Jiang Hongbo).
The widow of the village, a typical rural woman. Because of her friendship with Ma Dasan, she was pregnant. She helped Ma Dasan to take care of the Japanese soldiers for half a year. Yu'er is kind and capable, thinking about his man in everything, although he has no name or point, he is desperate to help Ma Dasan.
Jiang Hongbo, who graduated from Shenyang Institute of Physical Education majoring in volleyball, has more luck than his peers, and after going around the sports circle in obscurity, he was selected by the great director Jiang Wen to enter the showbiz. Since then, the three words "Jiang Hongbo" have spread far and wide at home and abroad, and people have learned about this hearty and smiling Northeast girl from various magazines, newspapers and television.
After the release of "The Devil is Coming", she became an instant hit with her superb acting skills, and also won an international award for it. But since then, she has always been in a tepid state, and when she is over half a hundred years old, she is still unmarried and childless, and she lives a particularly clean and free life.
5] Yidao Liu (actor: Chen Qiang).
In the film, he claimed to be Liu Ye, who had been the executioner of the Empress Dowager Cixi, as his name suggests, he can hit the head with a knife, but he lost his hand when killing Hanaya Kozaburo, but he resolutely did not make up the knife, he didn't care if he could hack the tortured person to death with a knife, he only cared if his reputation could be carried forward more with a knife.
With the role of Nan Batian in "Red Detachment of Women", Chen Qiang won the Best Supporting Actor Award at the 1st Popular Film Hundred Flowers Awards. After decades of actor career, Chen Qiang specializes in supporting roles, saying that he is the "king of supporting roles", which is not excessive, when he starred in "The Devil is Coming", Mr. Chen was 81 years old, but he could still ride a donkey and play with a big knife in the film, and he was not ambiguous at all.
On June 26, 2012, Chen Qiang died of pneumonia and kidney failure in Beijing Anzhen Hospital, and his body was buried in the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery at the age of 94.
6] Second neck (actor: Cai Weidong).
Lack of firmness, cunning, suspicious and thoughtful. In many cases, he always gives advice in a group of people, but never takes matters into his own hands, and the implementation of things always falls on the shoulders of Ma Dasan. He always talks about being a hero. In the film, nodding to the Japanese soldiers, a typical traitor image, there is no so-called Chinese backbone.
Cai Weidong, art designer, completed the art design of the first eight-episode TV series "Spring and Autumn in the Cemetery" in 1985. In 1988, he completed independent art design work for his first film, "No Gun Gunner". Among them, "The Devil is Coming" won the Special Award of the Organizing Committee of the 99 Cannes Film Festival, and "Red Face" won many awards such as the European Art Award at the 62nd Venice Film Festival.
Since the film, he has independently completed a total of 10 film art designs, and independently completed more than 200 TV drama art designs, of which 7 episodes of "Wind and Rain" won the first prize of "95" military TV drama art design. Hopefully he will bring more works in the future.
7] Crazy Seven Masters (Actor: Statement).
There is a special character in "The Devil is Coming", the Crazy Seventh Master. He is a real crazy person who sees the world, and he is a character who "everyone is drunk and I am sober". The common people of Kakedai Village accepted the food of the Japanese devils. The village reached a climax in the atmosphere of military and civilian carnival, and at the party, only the crazy seventh master exaggerated and crazy shouted: "I will pinch the two of them with one hand." The madness of the Crazy Seventh Master was expressed in three points.
In 1954, he played the role of the chief of enemy intelligence in "Crossing the River Reconnaissance" and became famous in one fell swoop. After that, he performed in nearly 40 films such as "Railway Guerrilla" and "Shake, Shake, Shake to Grandma's Bridge". Among them, "Crossing the River Reconnaissance" won the first prize of the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China from 1949 to 1955.
At 11:45 p.m. on October 17, 2006, he passed away at the age of 86 at Ruijin Hospital affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine.
8] Fifth uncle and grandfather (actor: Cong Zhijun).
On the surface, the fifth uncle is a respected old man in the village, and he is the most powerful in a group of people, but he is also the least effective. When the scene got out of control, he could only weakly say something like "It's a blessing or a curse, it's a disaster that can't be avoided". He is kind and steady, but he can't see the situation clearly and can't grasp the seriousness, which is also a derogatory image.
Actor Cong Zhijun has been working on the drama stage all year round, and there are not many film and television works, but the characters he has created are all classics. Yu Gong in MTV of "Yu Gong Moves Mountains", Uncle Clan in "Ju Dou", Qu Yang in "Smiling Proud Jianghu", Yang Shengli in "Please Praise Me", and this fifth uncle and grandfather.
Cong Zhijun passed away on May 1, 2007. As an actor, he has gone through his life of hard work and won the certificate of "40 years of struggle for Chinese drama". He has been willing to be a green leaf all his life and has struggled for Chinese drama for 40 years, and his name should be remembered by everyone.
9] Liuwang (actor: Li Congxi).
Liuwang, the broken mouth with a sharp mouth, he seems to have forgotten that words and deeds need to be measured, and he keeps talking regardless of the occasion, his father always scolds him for this, so that he can learn to be restrained, not all words can be said without scruples.
Li Congxi was a former army colonel, and after his retirement, he worked as a producer at Bayi Film Studio, participating in the production of films such as; "Armageddon", "Sunny Day", "The Great Turn", "The Devil is Coming", "Hero" and so on. He played the leading role in the film "Cuckold" and won the Best Actor Award at the 18th Singapore International Film Festival in 2005.
On October 19, 2023, the TV series "Big World Gacha Machine" starring Li Congxi will be broadcast, but there is no news recently, and friends who like it can pay attention to it.
10] Eighth Aunt (actor: Chen Lianmei).
The character of the eighth aunt gives the impression of being sharp-toothed, scheming, calculating, and self-centered. Every time I reason with Ma Dasan and his gang, my mouth is like a river. really asked her to reason and compare with the Japanese, but she didn't dare, but this character as a whole is kind and simple.
Chen Lianmei, the eighth aunt who performed naturally and down-to-earth in "The Devil is Coming", conquered the hearts of the audience with her excellent acting skills. Her every expression and every line is like a bit of life, exuding a simple and authentic charm. In 2009, she also participated in the movie "Ten Thousand Scrolls", and in 2014, she participated in the movie "Domino of Love".
It's a pity that this old lady hasn't acted in too many film and television dramas, if only she could create a few more characters, after all, her acting skills are all good.
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