Red Sorghum (1988)

10/10/1988 (CN) • 1h 31m

Drama, Romance, History

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.

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Status

Released

Original Language

Mandarin

Budget

-

Revenue

-

Keywords

based on novel or book

rural area

distillery

1940s

japanese occupation of china

war crime

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