Red Sorghum(Movie, 1987)

Name: Red Sorghum
Genre: Drama, War, Romance / Love
Released: 1987
Duration: T01:31:00
Rating: 3.6

Original title: "红高粱" (Chinese (Mandarin)/ZH)

1h 31min | Genres: Drama, War, Romance / Love

Rating: 3.6/5 (with 81 votes)

Red Sorghum is a 1987 Chinese film about a young woman's life working in a distillery for sorghum liquor. It is based on the first two parts of the novel Red Sorghum by Nobel laureate Mo Yan. The film marked the directorial debut of internationally acclaimed filmmaker Zhang Yimou, and the acting debut of film star Gong Li. With its lush and lusty portrayal of peasant life, it immediately vaulted Zhang to the forefront of the Fifth Generation directors. The film won the Golden Bear Award at Berlin Film Festival. ()

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Awards & Nominations for Red Sorghum

Golden Bear Golden Rooster Award for Best Picture Hundred Flowers Award for Best Picture Huabiao Award for Outstanding Film

About 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.

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Trailer for Red Sorghum + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

Hong gao liang/Red Sorghum/Sorgo Rojo(Trailer, 1:28)

Additional Information

Production country: People's Republic of China

Plays in: Shandong

Based on the work of: Mo Yan ("Red Sorghum")

Made by: Xi'an Film Studio

Original language: Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Spoken languages: Japanese (JA), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Translated into 18 languages: Bulgarian (BG), German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Georgian (KA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 10/10/1988

Cast: Gong Li, Jiang Wen, Teng Rujun, Ji Chunhua

Director: Zhang Yimou

Producer: Wu Tianming

Screenwriter: Mo Yan

Director of Photography: Gu Changwei

Composer: Zhao Jiping

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Hong gao liang"

"Das rote Kornfeld"

"홍고량"

"Het Rode Korenveld"

"Det röda fältet"

Keywords: war crime, 1940s, japanese occupation of china, based on novel or book, distillery, rural area

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