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
Zhang Yimou
Nie Laijing
Hu Xiaoguang
Palanquin Porter
