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Red Sorghum (1988)

Red Sorghum (1988)

Drama Romance History
Release Date: 1988, October 10
Directors: Zhang Yimou
Countries: China
Production: Xi'an Film Studio
Cast: Jiang Wen, Gong Li, Hu Xiaoguang, Ji Chunhua, Teng Rujun, Liu Ji, Qian Ming, Zhai Chunhua, Li Yusheng

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

based on novel or book 1940s rural area japanese occupation of china distillery war crime