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Red Sorghum

1988

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Red Sorghum

Genre: DramaRomanceHistory

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Runtime: 91 min

Average vote: 7.197

Release date: 1988-10-10

Production Countries: CN

Director: Zhang Yimou

Writer: Chen Jianyu

Writer: Zhu Wei

Writer: Li Kezhi

Plot:

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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