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Red Sorghum

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Red Sorghum

7.1

1h 31m

1988

Synopsis

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.

Director

Zhang Yimou

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DramaRomanceHistory

based on novel or bookrural areadistillery1940sjapanese occupation of chinawar crime

Cast & Crew

Gong Li

Gong Li

as Jiu'er

Jiang Wen

Jiang Wen

as Yu

Teng Rujun

Teng Rujun

as Uncle Luohan

Liu Ji

as Jiu'er's Son

Qian Ming

as Jiu'er's Grandmother

Ji Chunhua

Ji Chunhua

as Sanpao

Zhai Chunhua

Zhai Chunhua

as Hu Er

Jia Zhaoji

Jia Zhaoji

Zhang Yuxiang

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