Director: Yimou Zhang

Country/Region: China

Synopsis: This movie is adapted from Mo Yan’s novelette of the same name, telling of the story of "my grandpa" and "my grandma" in "my" perspective. In 1930s China, a young woman is sent by her father to marry the leprous owner of a winery. In the nearby red sorghum fields she falls for one of his servants. When the master dies she finds herself inheriting the isolated business...The first half tells a romantic love story, and the second half is an anti-Japanese tragedy. Combining narration and emotion, realism and freehand expression, the strong colors of Red Sorghum has not only moulded a visual fantasy, but also sung highly of the robust vitality of the Chinese people, describing an "abstract and metaphorical China".