DVD: Red Sorghum

Directed by Zhang Yimou
Starring: Gong Li, Jiang Wen, Teng Rujun

In a village of Shandong province during the earlier period of War of Resistance against Japan, a beautiful girl named Jiu'er was forcefully betrothed by her avaricious father to the owner of a sorghum winery, Datou Li, who was said to be leprous. One of his crew in the sorgum winery Zhan'ao Yu, being bold, stouthearted and brave, took away Jiu'er's virginity in the broomcorn field when she came back to her parent's home. They finally became a couple and made out a well-known kind of wine. Then the Japanese army came, slaughtering and snatching the village, and provoked deep hatred among the people in the sorghum winery. In the broomcorn field, they ambushed the Japanese army. Jiu'er and the other die, and only Zhan'ao Yu and his nine-year old son are left.

Mandarin with English Subtitles.

Produced in 1987