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A Balasaur Score of 76 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 7.3/10, Rotten Tomatoes 87%. Critics rate it 14 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 85% of the 1,317 1980s drama movies in this catalog.
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.
Ratings
IMDb7.3/10
Rotten Tomatoes87%
Critics rate it 14 points higher than audiences do.
256 audience votes
Key crew
- Zhang YimouDirector
- Chen JianyuWriter
- Zhao JipingOriginal Music Composer
- Zhu WeiWriter
- Li KezhiWriter
Cast
- Gong LiJiu'er
- Jiang WenYu
- Teng RujunUncle Luohan
- Liu JiJiu'er's Son
- Qian MingJiu'er's Grandmother
- Ji ChunhuaSanpao
- Zhai ChunhuaHu Er
- Jia ZhaojiCast
- Zhang YuxiangCast
- Zhou GuiyunCast
- Yang QianbinCast
- Xu GuoqingCast
Movies like Red Sorghum
Themes
based on novel or bookrural areadistillery1940sjapanese occupation of chinawar crime
The Best Movies of 1988
Red Sorghum is #26 of 60
