Red Sorghum

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Red Sorghum (1988)

Directed by Zhang Yimou

Drama, Romance, History · 1h 31m

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.

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Cast

Gong Li Jiu'er Jiang Wen Yu Teng Rujun Uncle Luohan
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Liu Ji Jiu'er's Son
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Qian Ming Jiu'er's Grandmother Ji Chunhua Sanpao Zhai Chunhua Hu Er Jia Zhaoji
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Zhang Yuxiang Zhou Guiyun
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Yang Qianbin
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Xu Guoqing

Crew

Director
Zhang Yimou
Writer
Chen Jianyu, Zhu Wei, Li Kezhi
Novel
Mo Yan
Director of Photography
Gu Changwei
Original Music Composer
Zhao Jiping
Editor
Du Yuan
Producer
Wu Tianming

Details

Original title
红高粱
Release date
1988-10-10
Runtime
1h 31m
Genres
Drama, Romance, History
Original language
ZH
Spoken languages
Japanese, Mandarin
Countries
China
Production
Xi'an Film Studio