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.
Type:
MOVIE
Country:
CN
Genres:
Drama, Romance, History
Release:
October 1988
Production:
Xi'an Film Studio
Cast:
Gong Li, Jiang Wen, Teng Ru-jun, Ji Liu, Ming Qian, Ji Chunhua, Zhai Chunhua, Jia Zhaoji, Yuxiang Zhang, Guiyun Zhou, Yang Qianbin, Guoqing Xu, Yao Er-Ga, Yusheng Li, Kun Dong, Hu Xiaoguang, Zhang Yimou, 聂来敬
Tags:
based on novel or book, rural area, distillery, 1940s, japanese occupation of china, war crime
