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Red Sorghum (1988)

★ 7.1/10 91 min Drama, Romance, History China Chinese
Director: Zhang Yimou
Streaming: Not available

Description

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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Top Cast

Gong Li
Gong Li Jiu'er
Jiang Wen
Jiang Wen Yu
Teng Rujun
Teng Rujun Uncle Luohan
Liu Ji Jiu'er's Son
Qian Ming Jiu'er's Grandmother
Ji Chunhua
Ji Chunhua Sanpao
Zhai Chunhua
Zhai Chunhua Hu Er
Jia Zhaoji
Jia Zhaoji

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