General situation of red sorghum field
This film is adapted from two novellas "Red Sorghum" and "Sorghum Wine" published by Mo Yan on 1986. In the early 1930s, bandits were rampant in Gaomi, Shandong Province, and the people were in dire straits. The daughter of a ruined landlord in northeast China, 19-year-old Jiu-Er, was betrothed by her greedy father to the son of a leprous hotel owner, Unilateral Wave. Yu Zhanao, a powerful barber shop, loved Jiu-Er and killed a single father and son. Jiu-Er and Yu Zhanao started a love that was not recognized by the villagers.