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Red Sorghum
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.
Cast
- Gong Li as Jiu'er
- Jiang Wen as Yu
- Teng Rujun as Uncle Luohan
- Liu Ji as Jiu'er's Son
- Qian Ming as Jiu'er's Grandmother
- Ji Chunhua as Sanpao
- Zhai Chunhua as Hu Er
- Jia Zhaoji
- Zhang Yuxiang
- Zhou Guiyun
- Yang Qianbin
- Xu Guoqing
Details
- Director
- Zhang Yimou
- Released
- October 10, 1988
- Runtime
- 1h 31m
- Genres
- Drama, Romance, History
- Studio
- Xi'an Film Studio
- Status
- Released
- TMDB score
- 7.2 / 10 from 256 votes
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