Red Sorghum / Hong gao liang / Красный гаолян (1987)
DVD, DVD-Rip | Chinese, Russian | 1:31:37 | 720 x 480, 720 x 288 | 30, 24fps | MPEG 5851 kbps, DivX 1743 kbps | AC3, 192 kb/s | 4.15 GB, 1.37 GB
Subtitle: English, Russian, Chinese (not built in)
Genre: Drama | War
DVD, DVD-Rip | Chinese, Russian | 1:31:37 | 720 x 480, 720 x 288 | 30, 24fps | MPEG 5851 kbps, DivX 1743 kbps | AC3, 192 kb/s | 4.15 GB, 1.37 GB
Subtitle: English, Russian, Chinese (not built in)
Genre: Drama | War
Won Golden Bear award at the Berlin Film Festival.
A stunning visual achievement, this new wave Chinese film (and Yimou's directorial debut) succeeds on many levels–as an ode to the color red, as dark comedy, and as a sweeping epic with fairy tale overtones. Set in rural China in the 1920s, during the period of the Japanese invasion. The sorghum plot nearby is a symbolic playing field in the movie's most stunning scenes. Here, people make love, murder, betray, and commit acts of bravery, all under the watchful eye of nature.