Red Sorghum 1988

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.

Cast

Gong Li

Jiang Wen

Teng Rujun

Liu Ji

Qian Ming

Ji Chunhua

Zhai Chunhua

Jia Zhaoji

Zhang Yuxiang

Zhou Guiyun

Yang Qianbin

Xu Guoqing

Yao Er-ga

Li Yusheng

Dong Kun

Hu Xiaoguang

Zhang Yimou

Nie Laijing