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Red Sorghum is a 1987 Chinese film about a young woman's life working in a distillery for sorghum liquor. It is based on the first two parts of the novel Red Sorghum by Nobel laureate Mo Yan. The film marked the directorial debut of internationally acclaimed filmmaker Zhang Yimou, and the acting debut of film star Gong Li.
Red Sorghum. When a leprous winery owner in 1930s China dies a few days after his arranged marriage, his young widow is forced to run the winery to make a living while contending with bandits, her drunkard lover, and the invading Japanese army.
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- Drama, History, Romance
- Yimou Zhang
- 1989-02
"Red Sorghum" is the sort of scenic, romantic, violent, symbolic melodrama that flowered in the early years of the cinema. The fact that it was made in 1988, and shot in China in CinemaScope and color, doesn't make it a modern film, but that is quite all right.
Young Jiu'er (Gong Li) is sent by her parents to marry an old leper who owns a distillery. As she is being carried over the sorghum fields, bandits attack and she is rescued by a laborer (Wen ...
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- Gong Li
- Yimou Zhang
- Drama
Dec 18, 2015 · Director: Zhang Yimou (China) When Zhang Yimou’s Red Sorghum won the Golden Bear at the 1988 Berlin International Film Festival, it was a coming-of-age moment for both Chinese cinema and the...
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. An old leper who owned a remote sorghum winery dies.
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Mar 9, 2015 · Red Sorghum juxtaposes the vibrant chauvinism of rural Chinese during the second Sino-Japanese war with the tyrannical Japanese. Laughing, sweating, glistening male bodies and Gong Li’s reserved matronly character are political caricatures, underdogs, that must stand up to Japan’s uniformed fascism.
