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Red Sorghum: Directed by Yimou Zhang. With Gong Li, Wen Jiang, Rujun Teng, Ji Liu. When a leprous winery owner in 1930s China dies a few days after his arranged marriage, his young widow is forced to run the winery to make a living while contending with bandits, her drunkard lover, and the invading Japanese army.
But Red Sorghum is one of his earliest translations, and he clearly sweated blood in rendering this great work into mouth-watering English. For those new to Mo Yan, The Garlic Ballads is probably an easier entry point, since it's shorter and less ambitious, yet beautifully, achingly sad.
Red Sorghum (Chinese: 红高粱; pinyin: Hóng Gāoliang) is a 2014 Chinese television series based on Nobel laureate Mo Yan's 1986 novel of the same name. Directed by Zheng Xiaolong , it also features the highly anticipated return of actress Zhou Xun to television after 10 years. [1]
In Theaters At Home TV Shows. Advertise With Us. Young Jiu'er (Gong Li) is sent by her parents to marry an old leper who owns a distillery. As she is being carried over the sorghum fields, bandits ...
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"Red Sorghum" is the sort of scenic, romantic, violent, symbolic melodrama that flowered in the early years of the cinema. The fact that it was made in 1988, and shot in China in CinemaScope and color, doesn't make it a modern film, but that is quite all right. There is a strength in the simplicity of this story, in the almost fairy-tale quality of its images and the shocking suddenness of its ...
Plot Summary. Published in 1986, Red Sorghum is a magical realism novel written by Mo Yan. Set in China from the 1920s to the 1970s, the novel plays with time, non-chronologically telling the story of three generations of the Shandong family as they transition from sorghum wine makers to resistance soldiers during the Second Shino-Japanese War ...
Apr 1, 1994 · Red Sorghum: A Novel of China. Red Sorghum. : Mo Yan. Penguin, Apr 1, 1994 - Fiction - 368 pages. The acclaimed novel of love and resistance during late 1930s China by Mo Yan, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Spanning three generations, this novel of family and myth is told through a series of flashbacks that depict events of staggering ...
