Synopsis

Red Sorghum (1987)

Red Sorghum (1988)

An old leper who owned a remote sorghum winery dies. Jiu’er, the wife bought by the leper, and her lover, identified only as “my Grandpa” by the narrator, take over the winery and set up an idealized quasi-matriarchal community headed by Jiu’er. When the Japanese invaders subject the area to their rule and cut down the sorghum to make way for a road, the community rises up and resists as the sorghum grows anew.
Zhang Yimou
Gong Li, Jiang Wen, Ten Rujun, Ji Liu, Ming Qian, Ji Chun-Hua, Chunhua Zhai, Jia Zhaoji, Yuxiang Zhang, Guiyun Zhou, Yang Qianbin, Guoqing Xu, Erga Yao, Yusheng Li, Kun Dong
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