
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.
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
Unknown
Zhang Yuxiang
Unknown
Zhou Guiyun
Unknown
Yang Qianbin
Unknown
Xu Guoqing
Unknown

Yao Er-ga
Unknown

Li Yusheng
Palanquin Porter
Dong Kun
Unknown

Zhang Yimou
Unknown
Nie Laijing
Unknown

Hu Xiaoguang
Palanquin Porter
Crew
Ji Jianmin
Directing Lighting Artist

Zhang Yimou
Director
Chen Jianyu
Writer

Zhu Wei
Writer
Li Kezhi
Writer

Mo Yan
Novel
Du Yuan
Editor

Gu Changwei
Director of Photography

Yang Fengliang
Assistant Director

Wu Tianming
Producer
Liu Jianzhong
Costume Designer
Sun Wei
Makeup Artist
Gu Changning
Sound Designer

Zhao Jiping
Original Music Composer
Liu Zhiren
Set Dresser
Lei Xiaogang
Property Master
Lun Yang
Additional Photography
Gang Yang
Art Direction
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