Red Sorghum
First aired on Oct 10, 1988
Runtime: 91 mins
70%
Genres: Drama, Romance, History
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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Featured Crew
Zhang Yimou | Director
Chen Jianyu | Writer
Gu Changwei | Director of Photography
Gu Changning | Sound Designer
Gang Yang | Art Direction
Zhao Jiping | Original Music Composer