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Red Sorghum
User Score238 votes
71%7.1/10
Release1988→
Runtime1H 31M
LanguageJapanese
StatusReleased
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.
Principal Cast8
Gong Li
Jiu'er
Jiang Wen
Yu
Teng Rujun
Uncle Luohan
Liu Ji
Jiu'er's Son
Qian Ming
Jiu'er's Grandmother
Ji Chunhua
Sanpao
Zhai Chunhua
Hu Er
Jia Zhaoji
Media11
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Director
Zhang Yimou
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Keywords
based on novel or bookrural areadistillery1940sjapanese occupation of chinawar crime
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Countries:China
Production:Xi'an Film Studio