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Red Sorghum

Original title: 红高粱

1988 · 1h 31m

Directed by Zhang Yimou

7.4

TMDB audience score
294 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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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Cast

  • Gong Li
    Jiu'er

  • Jiang Wen
    Yu

  • 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

  • Yang Qianbin

  • Xu Guoqing

  • Yao Er-ga

  • Li Yusheng
    Palanquin Porter

  • Dong Kun

  • Zhang Yimou

  • Nie Laijing

  • Hu Xiaoguang
    Palanquin Porter