Red Sorghum
Released: 1987
Drama, War, 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.
Starring: Gong Li, Jiang Wen, Ten Rujun, Ji Liu, Ming Qian, Ji Chun-Hua, Chunhua Zhai, Jia Zhaoji
Directed by: Zhang Yimou
Written by: Jianyu Chen, Mo Yan, Wei Zhu
Language: Mandarin, Japanese
Scenes
A group of men dig a trap for the Japanese on a road, so that the invaders will fall into large vats of wastewater. One man lifts a boy up and has him pee into one of the vats.
Alternate Titles
Hong gao liang (Romanized)
Det röda fältet
Das rote Kornfeld
Red Sorghum
홍고량
Het Rode Korenveld
Red Sorghum