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.

HSK 1

3.86 Beginner Director Zhang Yimou 🍅 85%

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

Vocabulary

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久久 jiǔ	(long) time; (long) duration of time	HSK 3
本来本來 běn lái	original; originally; at first; it goes without saying; of course	HSK 3
各各 gè	each; every	HSK 3
报報 bào	to announce; to inform; report; newspaper; recompense; revenge	HSK 3
敢敢 gǎn	to dare; daring; (polite) may I venture	HSK 3
抓抓 zhuā	to grab; to catch; to arrest; to snatch; to scratch	HSK 3
好好好好 hǎo hǎo	well; carefully; nicely; properly	HSK 3
到底到底 dào dǐ	finally; in the end; when all is said and done; after all; to the end; to the last	HSK 3
按按 àn	to press; to push; to leave aside or shelve; to control; to restrain; to keep one's hand on; to check or refer to; according to; in the light of; (of an editor or author) to make a comment	HSK 3
容易容易 róng yì	easy; straightforward; likely; liable to; apt to	HSK 3
双雙 shuāng	two; double; pair; both; even (number)	HSK 3
除了除了 chú le	besides; apart from (... also...); in addition to; except (for)	HSK 3
下来下來 xià lai	to come down; (completed action marker); (after verb of motion, indicates motion down and towards us, also fig.); (indicates continuation from the past towards us); to be harvested (of crops); to be over (of a period of time); to go among the masses (said of leaders)	HSK 3
整个整個 zhěng gè	whole; entire; total	HSK 3
活活 huó	to live; alive; living; work; workmanship	HSK 3
强強 jiàng	stubborn; unyielding	HSK 3
转轉 zhuǎi	see 转文	HSK 3
连連 lián	to link; to join; to connect; continuously; in succession; including; (used with 也, 都 etc) even; company (military)	HSK 3
受受 shòu	to receive; to accept; to suffer; subjected to; to bear; to stand; pleasant; (passive marker)	HSK 3
总總 zǒng	general; overall; to sum up; in every case; always; invariably; anyway; after all; eventually; sooner or later; surely; (after a person's name) abbr. for 总经理 or 总编 etc	HSK 3
内內 nèi	inside; inner; internal; within; interior	HSK 3
张張 zhāng	to open up; to spread; sheet of paper; classifier for flat objects, sheet; classifier for votes	HSK 3
心心 xīn	heart; mind; intention; center; core	HSK 3
继续繼續 jì xù	to continue; to proceed with; to go on with	HSK 3
只是只是 zhǐ shì	merely; only; just; nothing but; simply; but; however	HSK 3
死死 sǐ	to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid; extremely; damned	HSK 3
开始開始 kāi shǐ	to begin; beginning; to start; initial	HSK 3
时時 shí	o'clock; time; when; hour; season; period	HSK 3
就是就是 jiù shì	exactly; precisely; only; simply; just; (used correlatively with 也) even; even if	HSK 3
被被 bèi	quilt; to cover (with); (literary) to suffer (a misfortune); used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb); (since c. 2009) (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes (as in 被旅游 to "go on a trip", for example)	HSK 3
把把 bǎ	to hold; to grasp; to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate; handlebar; classifier: handful, bundle, bunch; classifier for things with handles; (used to put the object before the verb: 把 + {noun} + {verb})	HSK 3
假的假的 jiǎ de	bogus; ersatz; fake; mock; phony	Xiehouyu ∼HSK 2
拉倒拉倒 lā dǎo	(coll.) forget it; drop it; let it go; to pull down	Xiehouyu ∼HSK 2
够夠 gòu	enough (sufficient); enough (too much); (coll.) (before adj.) really; (coll.) to reach by stretching out	Colloquialism HSK 2
见过見過 jiànguò	seen	HSK 2
往前往前 wǎng qián	(in) the past; ahead; forward; in the future	∼HSK 2
大头大頭 dà tóu	big head; mask in the shape of a big head; the larger end of sth; the main part; the lion's share; dupe; sucker; (old) silver coin with a bust of Yuan Shikai on the obverse side	∼HSK 2
当家當家 dāng jiā	to manage the household; to be the one in charge of the family; to call the shots; to be in charge	∼HSK 2
成了成了 chéng le	to be done; to be ready; that's enough!; that will do!	∼HSK 2
易易 Yì	change; easy	∼HSK 2
身身 shēn	body; trunk, hull; rad. no. 158	∼HSK 2
后院後院 hòu yuàn	rear court; back garden; backyard (also fig.)	∼HSK 2
下酒下酒 xià jiǔ	to be appropriate to have with alcohol; to down one's drink	∼HSK 2
后生後生 hòu shēng	young generation; youth; young man	∼HSK 2
通气通氣 tōng qì	ventilation; aeration; to keep each other informed; to release information	∼HSK 2
喝酒喝酒 hē jiǔ	to drink (alcohol)	∼HSK 2
一定要一定要 yī dìng yào	must	∼HSK 2
刘劉 Liú	surname; kill, destroy	∼HSK 2
生事生事 shēng shì	to make trouble	∼HSK 2
巴巴 Bā	greatly desire, anxiously hope	∼HSK 2