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Yimou Zhang – Hong gao liang AKA Red Sorghum [91min edit] (1988)

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Celebrated Mainland filmmaker Zhang Yimou brings his inimitable touch to Red Sorghum, a sumptuous drama set during 1930s China, just prior to the Japanese occupation. Jiu’er (Gong Li) is a young bride arranged to marry the leprous owner of a sorghum winery. But the leper dies, and Jiu’er takes over the winery, along with her lover (Jiang Wen), a burly rogue with a natural, rough charisma. Their rural lives are filled with struggle and even joy, but the invasion of the Japanese brings tragedy and blood to their doorsteps. Told in glorious shades of red, Red Sorghum is quintessential Zhang Yimou, and uses setting, cinematography, and stunning imagery to create characters and mood that are both iconic and recognizable. Gong Li and Jiang Wen both turn in revelatory performances. As both an anti-war film and a portrait of pre-Communist Chinese life, Red Sorghum is a compelling, powerful achievement from a true master of cinema.

Red Sorghum was the first directorial effort of controversial Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou. The director’s favorite leading lady Gong Li plays a young woman of the 1920s whose family sells her into marriage with a wealthy winemaker. At first a loveless union, the relationship blossoms into one of strong friendship and mutual respect. During World War II, Gong Li fights side by side with her husband against the invading Japanese. A sweeping yet intensely personal historical epic, Red Sorghum won the 1988 Golden Bear award at the Berlin Film Festival. Despite its patriotic overtones, the film was heavily censored (when not banned altogether) in certain provinces of Communist China. The first Chinese film to receive a commercial release in the U.S., and the winner of the prestigious Golden Bear at the 1988 Berlin Film Festival, Zhang Yimou’s fable of Chinese life during the ’20s and ’30s, with it’s plenary abundance of astonishingly sensual images, immediately established him as one of the world’s most gifted directors. Yimou’s saga covers his grandmother’s life, from her arranged marriage as a young girl, to the bloody invasion of the Japanese and WWII.

1.52GB | 1 h 31 min | 1024×436 | mkv

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Language(s):Mandarin, Japanese
Subtitles:English

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