Two parts family melodrama one part Chinese nationalist history. An unseen narrarator weaves the tale of his grandmother a poor rural Chinese girl sold into marriage to a leprous winemaker. After her husband's death the grandmother transforms the winery into a idyllic community of productive laborers only to have her progress thwarted by the invading Japanese.
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Two parts family melodrama one part Chinese nationalist history An unseen narrarator weaves the tale of his grandmother a poor rural Chinese girl sold into marriage to a leprous winemaker After her husband&39;s death the grandmother transforms the winery into a idyllic community of productive laborers only to have her progress thwarted by the invading Japanese Actors Li Gong Wen Jiang Rujun Ten Zhigang Chen Kun Dong Guoguang Du Xiaoguang Hu Liu Jia Cunhua Ji Yusheng Li Laijing Nie Yang Qianbin Ming Qian Hongguang Wang Guoqing Xu Erga Yao Chunhua Zhai Yimou Zhang & Yuxiang Zhang Director Yimou Zhang Certificate 15 years and over Year 1987 Screen Widescreen 1851 Languages Mandarin Subtitles English Duration 1 hour and 28 minutes (approx) Region Region 2 - Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players
Award-winning rural Chinese drama directed by Zhang Yimou. In the China of the 1920s, a young woman Jiu'er (Li Gong) is entered into an arranged marriage with the leprous owner of a local winery. Although the relationship between the two is tenuous at first, it gradually develops over time into one of mutual respect. As time passes, Jiu'er falls for one the workers at the winery, shortly before her now ill husband dies. Inheriting the winery, Jiu'er, with her lover, take control, establishing a thriving business, even more successful than before. But when the Japanese military arrive during WWII, they rip up the wine fields in order to make a road. Now, as the local villagers rise up against the invaders, Jiu'er leads the patriotic surge to return the red sorghum crop to the fields.
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