Red Sorghum (1988)
Synopsis
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
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Gong Li
as Jiu'er
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Jiang Wen
as Yu
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Teng Rujun
as Uncle Luohan
- Liu Ji as Jiu'er's Son
- Qian Ming as Jiu'er's Grandmother
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Ji Chunhua
as Sanpao
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Zhai Chunhua
as Hu Er
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Jia Zhaoji
- Zhang Yuxiang
- Zhou Guiyun
- Yang Qianbin
- Xu Guoqing
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Yao Er-ga
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Li Yusheng
as Palanquin Porter
- Dong Kun
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Zhang Yimou
- Nie Laijing
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Hu Xiaoguang
as Palanquin Porter
Crew
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Zhang Yimou
Director
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Gu Changwei
Director of Photography
- Du Yuan Editor
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Zhao Jiping
Original Music Composer
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Wu Tianming
Producer
- Chen Jianyu Writer
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Zhu Wei
Writer
- Li Kezhi Writer
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