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Red Sorghum (1988)
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Red Sorghum

1988Directed by Zhang Yimou1h 31m

红高粱

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.

  • Drama
  • Romance
  • History

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
  • Yao Er-ga
  • Li Yusheng as Palanquin Porter
  • Dong Kun
  • Zhang Yimou

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