Red Sorghum(1988)

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.

Genre: Drama, Romance, History

Director: Yimou Zhang

Actors: Gong Li, Wen Jiang, Rujun Teng, Ji Liu, Ming Qian, Chunhua Ji, Chunhua Zhai, Zhaoji Jia, Yuxiang Zhang, Guiyun Zhou

Release date: 1988-10-10

Country of origin: People's Republic of China

Length: 1h 31m

Ratings:

• 7.3/10
• 85%