Cinematic background from Red Sorghum 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.

Red Sorghum

1988

Drama, History, Romance

Directors:
Yimou Zhang
Writers:
Jianyu Chen, Yan Mo, Wei Zhu
Official poster of Red Sorghum 1988 directed by Yimou Zhang