

Red Sorghum
Visit website7.2/10 • 211
1988-10-10 • 1h 31m
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.
- Directors
- Zhang Yimou
- Writters
- Chen Jianyu, Zhu Wei, Li Kezhi
- Editors
- Chen Jianyu, Zhu Wei, Du Yuan

Red Sorghum
Visit website1988-10-10 • 1h 31m
7.2/10 • 211
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.
- Directors
- Zhang Yimou
- Writters
- Chen Jianyu, Zhu Wei, Li Kezhi
- Editors
- Chen Jianyu, Zhu Wei, Du Yuan
Top Billed Cast
View CreditsGong 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
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- Original Language
- Chinese
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- Keywords
- based on novel or bookrural areadistillery1940sjapanese occupation of chinawar crime