Red Sorghum

红高粱

1988·91'

Zhang Yimou

DramaRomanceHistory

Volksrepubliek China · Chinese

Letterboxd TMDB #42006

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.

Cast

Gong Li Jiu'er

Wen Jiang Jiang Wen Yu

Rujun Teng 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

Zhang Yuxiang

Zhou Guiyun