Red Sorghum
- Drama
- History
- Romance
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.
- Directed by
- Zhang Yimou
- Written by
- Chen Jianyu, Zhu Wei, Li Kezhi
- Based on
- Mo Yan
Hero
The Great Wall
Curse of the Golden Flower
Raise the Red Lantern
House of Flying Daggers
To Live