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Red Sorghum

Red Sorghum

19887.11h 31m

Overview

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.

Directed by Zhang Yimou
Written by Chen Jianyu, Mo Yan, Zhu Wei
Produced by Wu Tianming
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Top Cast

Gong Li

Gong Li

Jiu'er

Jiang Wen

Jiang Wen

Yu

Teng Rujun

Teng Rujun

Uncle Luohan

L

Liu Ji

Jiu'er's Son

Q

Qian Ming

Jiu'er's Grandmother

Ji Chunhua

Ji Chunhua

Sanpao

Zhai Chunhua

Zhai Chunhua

Hu Er

Jia Zhaoji

Jia Zhaoji

Z

Zhang Yuxiang

Zhou Guiyun

Zhou Guiyun

Themes & Keywords

based on novel or bookrural areadistillery1940sjapanese occupation of chinawar crime

About Red Sorghum

Red Sorghum is a drama, romance, history film released in 1988 exploring themes of based on novel or book, rural area, distillery, 1940s, japanese occupation of china, war crime. Directed by Zhang Yimou, it stars Gong Li, Jiang Wen, Teng Rujun. 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.

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