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Red Sorghum

Where:

Shandong Province

When:

The 1930s The 1940s

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.

Released in 1987 — 91 minutes

Genres:

Drama War

Languages:

Japanese Mandarin