Red Sorghum (1988)

Audience Score
72
Red Sorghum
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.
DirectorZhang Yimou
WritersJianyu ChenWei Zhu

Movie Details

Theatrical Release:October 10th, 1988
Original Language:Chinese
Production Companies:Xi'an Film Studio
Movie Tags:1940s