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.

Cast

Gong Li

Jiu'er

Jiang Wen

Yu

Teng Rujun

Uncle Luohan

Liu Ji

Jiu'er's Son

Qian Ming

Jiu'er's Grandmother

Ji Chunhua

Sanpao

Zhai Chunhua

Hu Er

Jia Zhaoji

Zhang Yuxiang

Zhou Guiyun