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.
October 10, 1988
Xi'an Film Studio
18 people
Gong Li
Jiu'er
Acting
Jiang Wen
Yu
Acting
Teng Rujun
Uncle Luohan
Acting
Liu Ji
Jiu'er's Son
Acting
Qian Ming
Jiu'er's Grandmother
Acting
Ji Chunhua
Sanpao
Acting
Zhai Chunhua
Hu Er
Acting
Jia Zhaoji
Acting
Zhang Yuxiang
Acting
Zhou Guiyun
Acting
Yang Qianbin
Acting
Xu Guoqing
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