Red Sorghum

AKA: Hong gao liangDet röda fältetDas rote KornfeldRed Sorghum홍고량Het Rode KorenveldRed SorghumRødt korn
11DB Rating
7.2/10
1988
1h 31m
China
Historical drama (historical)
Drama
Romance
Red Sorghum

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.