Red Sorghum

Red Sorghum ({{zh-cp|c=???|p=Hóng G?oliáng}}) is a 1987 Chinese film, the first to be directed by Zhang Yimou, based off a novel by Mo Yan. The film stars Gong Li, in her debut. Like Zhang's later work, The Road Home (1999), Red Sorghum is narrated by the main characters' grandson, but Red Sorghum lacks the flashback framing device of The Road Home (we never see the narrator). Important to the plot are a field of sorghum and a brewery/distillery of sorghum liquor.

Related Topics:
1987 - Chinese film - Zhang Yimou - Novel - Mo Yan - Gong Li - The Road Home - Narrated - Flashback - Sorghum - Brewery - Distillery - Liquor

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Red Sorghum; A Novel of China by Mo Yan (ISBN 0140168540)

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