Red Sorghum

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.

Trailer

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Cast

Gong Li

Jiu'er

Jiang Wen

Yu

Teng Rujun

Uncle Luohan

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Liu Ji

Jiu'er's Son

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Qian Ming

Jiu'er's Grandmother

Ji Chunhua

Sanpao

Zhai Chunhua

Hu Er

Jia Zhaoji

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Zhang Yuxiang

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Zhou Guiyun

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Yang Qianbin

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Xu Guoqing

Yao Er-ga

Li Yusheng

Palanquin Porter

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Dong Kun

Zhang Yimou

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Nie Laijing

Hu Xiaoguang

Palanquin Porter

Crew

Art

• Gang Yang Art Direction
• Lei Xiaogang Property Master
• Liu Zhiren Set Dresser

Camera

• Gu Changwei Director of Photography
• Lun Yang Additional Photography

Costume & Make-Up

• Sun Wei Makeup Artist
• Liu Jianzhong Costume Designer

Directing

• Zhang Yimou Director
• Yang Fengliang Assistant Director

Editing

• Du Yuan Editor

Lighting

• Ji Jianmin Directing Lighting Artist

Production

• Wu Tianming Producer

Sound

• Gu Changning Sound Designer
• Zhao Jiping Original Music Composer

Writing

• Chen Jianyu Writer
• Mo Yan Novel
• Zhu Wei Writer
• Li Kezhi Writer