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.
Genre: Drama, Romance, History
Stars: Gong Li, Jiang Wen, Teng Ru-jun, Ji Liu, Ming Qian, Ji Chunhua
Crew: Zhang Yimou (Director), Jianyu Chen (Writer), Gu Changwei (Director of Photography), Gu Changning (Sound Designer), Gang Yang (Art Direction), Zhao Jiping (Original Music Composer)
Country: China
Language: 日本語, 普通话
Studio: Xi'an Film Studio
Runtime: 91 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Oct 10, 1988
IMDb: 3.808
