Red Sorghum (1987)
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.Red Sorghum featuring Gong Li and Jiang Wen is streaming with subscription on Filmbox Live (Via Prime Video). It's a drama and history movie with a better than average IMDb audience rating of 7.3 (9,397 votes).
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Red Sorghum has a better than average IMDb audience rating of 7.3 (9,397 votes). The movie is somewhat popular with Reelgood users lately.
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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.