Where to Watch Red Sorghum (1988)

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Red Sorghum starring Gong Li, Jiang Wen, Teng Rujun, Liu Ji has a Not Rated rating, a runtime of about 1 hr 31 min, and a scheduled release date of October 10th, 1988.

It received a user score of 72/100 on TMDb, which collated reviews from 219 experienced users.

Here’s what’s going on in this one... Here's the plot: "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." .