
Plot
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.
Trailer
Cast

Gong Li
Jiu'er

Jiang Wen
Yu

Teng Rujun
Uncle Luohan

Liu Ji
Jiu'er's Son

Qian Ming
Jiu'er's Grandmother

Ji Chunhua
Sanpao

Zhai Chunhua
Hu Er

Jia Zhaoji

Zhang Yuxiang

Zhou Guiyun

Yang Qianbin

Xu Guoqing

Yao Er-ga

Li Yusheng
Palanquin Porter

Dong Kun

Hu Xiaoguang
Palanquin Porter

Zhang Yimou

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