Red Sorghum (1988)
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.
Cast
Gong Li
Jiu'er
Jiang Wen
Yu
Teng Rujun
Uncle Luohan
Ji Chunhua
Sanpao
Zhai Chunhua
Hu Er
Jia Zhaoji
Zhou Guiyun
Yao Er-ga
Li Yusheng
Palanquin Porter
Zhang Yimou
Hu Xiaoguang
Palanquin PorterRecommendations
Dangerous Liaisons
Tess
Legends of the Condor Heroes: The Gallants
Empire of the Sun
Where the Crawdads Sing
Winter's Tale
Radioactive
Mansfield Park
The Painted Veil
Return to Dust
Suite Française
The Way We Were
Possession
Turtles All the Way Down
Origin
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
The Scarlet and the Black
Out of Africa
A Call to Spy
Ali and Nino