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Red Sorghum

87%Critics15 reviews83%Audience121 reviews

8.2585average critics score, out of 1019881h 31m

WarHistoryDramaRomance

Young Jiu'er (Gong Li) is sent by her parents to marry an old leper who owns a distillery. As she is being carried over the sorghum fields, bandits attack and she is rescued by a laborer (Wen Jiang), with whom she has a son — the narrator. After the old leper dies, Jiu'er takes control of the distillery and invites the workers into a collective arrangement. But as the Sino-Japanese War peaks, barbarous Japanese troops storm onto the property determined to destroy the sorghum fields.

Directed by:

Yimou Zhang