Red Sorghum

Red Sorghum 1988

红高粱 hónggāoliáng

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.

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3.86 Beginner Director Zhang Yimou 🍅 85%

Cast

Gong Li Gong Li Jiu'er Jiang Wen Jiang Wen Yu Teng Rujun Teng Rujun Uncle Luohan Liu Ji Jiu'er's Son Qian Ming Jiu'er's Grandmother Ji Chunhua Ji Chunhua Sanpao Zhai Chunhua Zhai Chunhua Hu Er Jia Zhaoji Jia Zhaoji Zhang Yuxiang Zhou Guiyun

Vocabulary

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当天 當天 dāng tiān on that day HSK 6
踏 踏 tā see 踏实 HSK 6
毁 毀 huǐ to destroy; to ruin; to defame; to slander HSK 6
煮 煑 zhǔ to cook; to boil HSK 6
野 埜 yě field; plain; open space; limit; boundary; rude; feral HSK 6
埋 埋 mái to bury HSK 6
端 端 duān end; extremity; item; port; to hold sth level with both hands; to carry; regular HSK 6
再说 再說 zài shuō to say again; to put off a discussion until later; moreover; what's more; besides HSK 6
泡 泡 pāo puffed; swollen; spongy; small lake (esp. in place names); classifier for urine or feces HSK 6
拖 拕 tuō to drag; to tow; to trail; to hang down; to mop (the floor); to delay; to drag on HSK 6
解 解 jiě to divide; to break up; to split; to separate; to dissolve; to solve; to melt; to remove; to untie; to loosen; to open; to emancipate; to explain; to understand; to know; a solution; a dissection HSK 6
混 混 hùn to mix; to mingle; muddled; to drift along; to muddle along; to pass for; to get along with sb; thoughtless; reckless HSK 6
命 命 mìng life; fate; order or command; to assign a name, title etc HSK 6
据 㨿 jū used in 据 HSK 6
啥 啥 shá dialectal equivalent of 什么; also pr. [shà] HSK 6
啦 啦 lā (onom.) sound of singing, cheering etc; (phonetic); (dialect) to chat HSK 6
马马虎虎 馬馬虎虎 mǎ ma hū hū careless; casual; vague; not so bad; so-so; tolerable; fair Idiom ∼HSK 5
眉来眼去 眉來眼去 méi lái yǎn qù (idiom) to make eyes; to exchange flirting glances with sb Idiom ∼HSK 5
闹鬼 鬧鬼 nào guǐ haunted Xiehouyu ∼HSK 5
混蛋 混蛋 hún dàn scoundrel; bastard; hoodlum; wretch Xiehouyu ∼HSK 5
翻脸不认人 翻臉不認人 fān liǎn bù rèn rén to fall out with sb and become hostile Xiehouyu ∼HSK 5
收拾 收拾 shōu shi to put in order; to tidy up; to pack; to repair; (coll.) to sort sb out; to fix sb Colloquialism HSK 5
掌柜 掌櫃 zhǎng guì shopkeeper ∼HSK 5
轿 轎 jiào sedan-chair, palanquin ∼HSK 5
莫 莫 mò do not (literary) ∼HSK 5
烧锅 燒鍋 shāo guō a still (for distilling alcohol) ∼HSK 5
醇 醇 chún rich, good as wine; pure, unmixed ∼HSK 5
君 君 jūn lord, sir ∼HSK 5
骝 騮 liú famous horse ∼HSK 5
颠 顛 diān top, peak, summit; upset ∼HSK 5
仗 仗 zhàng rely upon; protector; fight; war, weaponry ∼HSK 5
大洋 大洋 dà yáng ocean; (old) silver dollar; (slang) Chinese yuan ∼HSK 5
唱戏 唱戲 chàng xì to perform in opera ∼HSK 5
褛 褸 lǚ lapel, collar; tattered, threadbare ∼HSK 5
染上 染上 rǎn shàng to catch (a disease); to get (a bad habit) ∼HSK 5
嗑 嗑 kè eat seeds; reproach; loquacious ∼HSK 5
跪下 跪下 guì xia to kneel down ∼HSK 5
滋 滋 zī grow, multiply, increase; thrive ∼HSK 5
豆 荳 dòu beans, peas; bean-shaped ∼HSK 5
待会 待會 dāi hui wait a minute; stop a while ∼HSK 5
逞 逞 chěng indulge oneself; brag, show off ∼HSK 5
灶 灶 zào kitchen stove, cooking stove ∼HSK 5
霉气 霉氣 méi qì a moldy smell; damp and rotten; fig. rotten bad luck ∼HSK 5
听清 聽清 tīng qīng to hear clearly ∼HSK 5
恶作剧 惡作劇 è zuò jù practical joke; prank; to play a practical joke ∼HSK 5
看清 看清 kàn qīng to see clearly ∼HSK 5
我操 我操 wǒ cào (substitute for) fuck; WTF ∼HSK 5
凌 凌 Líng pure; virtuous; insult; maltreat ∼HSK 5
惧 懼 jù fear, be afraid of, dread ∼HSK 5
休 休 xiū do not, stop ∼HSK 5