- HD 1080
- Runtime: 91m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: zh
- Country: China
- Director: Zhang Yimou
- Stars: Gong Li, Jiang Wen, Teng Ru-jun, Ji Liu, Ming Qian
- keywords: based on novel or book, rural area, distillery, 1940s, japanese occupation of china, war crime
- Production_studio: Xi'an Film Studio
- The Red Sorghum is featured in the top rankings of 1988
- #9 in Top Romance Movies of 1988
- #28 in Top Drama Movies of 1988
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.
