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Red Sorghum
1988 • 1h 31m • ★ 7.1 (237 votes) Released
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.
Director
Zhang Yimou
Writer
Chen Jianyu
Writer
Zhu Wei
Writer
Li Kezhi
Rating
7.1
Runtime
91 min
Production
Xi'an Film Studio
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Keywords
based on novel or bookrural areadistillery1940sjapanese occupation of chinawar crime
