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Red Sorghum(1988)
Status: Released
Date: 1988-10-10
72%
212 Votes
Time: 1h 31m
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.
Languages: Mandarin, Japanese.
Countries:
China
ProductionCompanies:
Xi'an Film Studio
Movie: Red Sorghum
Top 10 Billed Cast
巩俐
Jiu'er
Jiang Wen
Yu
Teng Ru-jun
Uncle Luohan
Ji Chunhua
Sanpao
Zhai Chunhua
Hu Er
Jia Zhaoji
Guiyun Zhou
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