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Red Sorghum

Original title: 红高粱

  • Movie
  • 1988
  • 1h 31m

Directed by Zhang Yimou

7.4

TMDB audience rating
7.4 out of 10 from 294 votes

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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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Cast and crew

  • Gong Li

    Gong LiJiu'er

  • Jiang Wen

    Jiang WenYu

  • Teng Rujun

    Teng RujunUncle Luohan

  • Liu JiJiu'er's Son

  • Qian MingJiu'er's Grandmother

  • Ji Chunhua

    Ji ChunhuaSanpao

  • Zhai Chunhua

    Zhai ChunhuaHu Er

  • Jia Zhaoji

    Jia Zhaoji

  • Zhang Yuxiang

  • Zhou Guiyun

    Zhou Guiyun

  • Yang Qianbin

  • Xu Guoqing

  • Yao Er-ga

    Yao Er-ga

  • Li Yusheng

    Li YushengPalanquin Porter

  • Dong Kun

  • Zhang Yimou

    Zhang Yimou

  • Nie Laijing

  • Hu Xiaoguang

    Hu XiaoguangPalanquin Porter

Director
Zhang Yimou
Writer
Chen Jianyu, Mo Yan and Zhu Wei
Music
Zhao Jiping
Cinematography
Gu Changwei