Hong gao liang

1988 [CHINESE]

Action / Drama / History / Romance / War

16
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 87% · 15 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 83% · 2.5K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.3/10 10 10796 10.8K

based on novel or book rural area distillery 1940s japanese occupation of china war crime

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Plot summary

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.

Director

Yimou Zhang Photo
Yimou Zhang

Top cast

Yimou Zhang Photo
Yimou Zhang as
Li Gong Photo
Li Gong as Wo Nainai
Wen Jiang Photo
Wen Jiang as Wo Yeye
Erga Yao Photo
Erga Yao as
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754.32 MB
1280*544
Chinese 2.0
Not Rated
Subtitles
24 fps
1 hr 31 min
Seeds 3
1.44 GB
1920*816
Chinese 2.0
Not Rated
Subtitles
24 fps
1 hr 31 min
Seeds 19

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by s r 6 / 10

1001 movies to see before you die. A

1001 movies to see before you die. A somewhat communist tribute to old China and a sorghum wine community that was thriving, then disrupted by the Japanese occupation. It told the love story that was ruined by the Japanese. It was on Youtube.
Reviewed by William L 7 / 10

Wine as drink, wine as explosive. Zhang Yimou's

Wine as drink, wine as explosive. Zhang Yimou's cinematic debut is a testament to transformation, spontaneity, and the insecure nature of life, beginning as a simplistic and traditional small-scale (but long-duration) social drama where characters contend mostly with the trappings of society, where the world itself seems to end at the boundaries of a sorghum field; like the production of wine, the story progression is sluggish and incremental. Until, with no warning, the world rushes in at the arrival of the Second Sino-Japanese War, and the carefully cultivated personalities that we have been introduced to through subtle character interactions and that have aged with time are suddenly thrust into a radical upheaval. The majority of the film is preoccupied with its folk tale origin (recounted by a subsequent generation), and its languid nature clashes with the grim and scarcely foreshadowed conclusion. As the directorial debut of well-recognized filmmaker Zhang Yimou and the acting debut of film star Gong Li, Red Sorghum heralded a shift in the international perception of Chinese cinema; even though the Chinese film did not remotely approach the international force that Hollywood still lays claim to, there was now the potential for individual projects to reach the same level of recognition as those of longstanding international titans of dramatic film, such as France and Italy. (3.5/5)
Reviewed by william d 6 / 10

I found the story to be a bit

I found the story to be a bit disjointed, as if the film makers couldn't figure out how to end a gentle tale of peasants working and surviving in the countryside, so they decided to have the Japanese show up and destroy everything. However, it was nice to see that Gong Li had developed her considerable acting chops (as well as her stunning beauty} by the time of her very first movie.
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