Oct 10, 1988
91 min
Full-HD

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.

Category

Drama Romance History

Country

China

Companies

Xi'an Film Studio

Gong Li

Jiu'er

Jiang Wen

Yu

Teng Ru-jun

Uncle Luohan

Ji Liu

Jiu'er's Son

Ming Qian

Jiu'er's Grandmother

Chunhua Ji

Sanpao

Zhai Chunhua

Hu Er

Jia Zhaoji

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