Red Sorghum

1988 · 91 MIN · IMDB 7.3 · 10,217 VOTES · DIR. Zhang Yimou

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Overview

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.

Dialogue Timeline — 497 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:07 Film: Red Sorghum
00:03:14 It is boring in the sedan.
00:07:46 Go!
00:12:41 No look!Go!
00:22:27 Girl, go and just go bravely.
00:24:45 Look to the future, all the fortune of the family Lee will belong to you.
00:26:35 He may be killed.
00:28:26 She's afraid to be in the house and get sick, poor woman.
00:31:22 People call me Jiu-er, and you too.
00:34:09 Once she lay down, I got the signal.
00:36:51 Hold him.
00:40:08 Or they could only see the death.
00:43:23 Grandpa had only 3 cents.
00:44:58 Don't move
00:47:23 Won't you go and take a look? Take a walk and calm down
00:49:36 Fire it up!
00:52:53 No, I can't drink
00:59:49 It's "Shibali Po" here, so call the wine "Shibali Hong"
01:07:37 You see him? Go to kill him
01:10:37 Bastard!
01:13:27 I've checked the county annals, it's said
01:19:55 What's up?
01:24:32 Honey
400:00:00 to build the "Chang Ping Railway"

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed497
Dialogue density5.5 lines / min
First line00:00:07
Final line400:00:00

Production Record

DirectorZhang Yimou
LanguageChinese
IMDb votes10,217