Red Sorghum (1988)
Hong gao liang
91 min
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.
- Release date
- June 19, 1988
- Country of origin
- China
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Cast
- Gong Li as Wo Nainai (My Grandma)
- Wen Jiang as Wo Yeye (My Grandpa)
- Rujun Teng as Wo Luohan Yeye (Uncle Luohan)
- Chunhua Ji as Sanpao
- Chunhua Zhai as Hu Er
- Zhaoji Jia
- Guiyun Zhou
- Guoqing Xu
- Yusheng Li as Palanquin Porter
- Yimou Zhang
- Ji Liu as Wo Die (My Dad)
- Ming Qian as Wo Nainai ta Die (My Grandma's Dad)
- Yuxiang Zhang
Crew
- Yimou Zhang · Director
- Jianyu Chen · Writer
- Yan Mo · Writer
- Wei Zhu · Writer
- Tian-Ming Wu · Producer
- Jiping Zhao · Composer
- Changwei Gu · Cinematographer
- Yuan Du · Editor