Red Sorghum (1988)
Original title: 红高粱
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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Gong LiJiu'er
Jiang WenYu
Teng RujunUncle LuohanJi LiuJiu'er's SonMing QianJiu'er's Grandmother
Ji ChunhuaSanpao
Zhai Chunhua胡二
Jia ZhaojiYuxiang ZhangGuiyun ZhouYang QianbinGuoqing XuKeywords
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What is Red Sorghum about?
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.
How long is Red Sorghum?
Red Sorghum has a runtime of 91 minutes.
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