Red Sorghum
Hong gao liang
1988, Film, 91 min, Drama, History, Romance, Chinese, China, MoviePedia score 71
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.
Directed by Yimou Zhang
Cast
- Gong Li as Wo Nainai (My Grandma)
- Wen Jiang as Wo Yeye (My Grandpa)
- Rujun Teng as Wo Luohan Yeye (Uncle Luohan)
- Ji Liu as Wo Die (My Dad)
- Ming Qian as Wo Nainai ta Die (My Grandma's Dad)
- Chunhua Ji as Sanpao
- Chunhua Zhai
- Zhaoji Jia
- Yuxiang Zhang
- Guiyun Zhou
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