Red Sorghum

...booming cinema emerging across Asia. Among the movies from Asia to be screened in the retrospective are Zhang Yimou's Hong gaoliang (Red Sorghum) which won the festival's coveted Golden Bear in 1988. Hong gaoliang became the first film from...

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...stored in the tunnel for at least five years. The 1987 Zhang Yimou film Red Sorghum (紅高梁; Pinyin: Hong Gaoliang) is set in a rural kaoliang distillery in the Shandong province of China. The fictional character Li Kao, from Barry...

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...60 years inpower. Perhaps the most famous Chinese cinema star to return to China is director Zhang Yimou, who rose to fame through a series of searing portraits of the country such as Red Sorghum and Raise the Red Lantern. Zhang last year...

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...first leading role. Released to widespread critical acclaim, Red Sorghum catapulted Zhang into the forefront of the world's art directors, winning him the Golden Bear for Best Picture at the 1988 Berlin Film Festival. Its rich, earthy...

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...same directors. Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige have made many films, but they've been able to reach American moviegoers mainly through works about the past, such as "Raise the Red Lantern," "Farewell My Concubine" and "Red Sorghum." Their films...

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...psyche. Modern Chinese literature is at best a niche interest overseas, breaking through only occasionally in the form of books like Mo Yan's "Red Sorghum," later made into a film by Oscar-nominated director Zhang Yimou. Chinese...

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...with classmates Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou on their early films, notably King of the Children (for Chen Kaige) and Red Sorghum (for Zhang Yimou), both in 1987. Since then, Gu has worked with both men on multiple occasions, including on...

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...of Communist Party chiefs. He gained worldwide recognition for films including 1987's "Red Sorghum" about a woman's life working on a distillery for sorghum liquor, and the 2002 martial arts blockbuster "Hero". Copyright © 2009 Agence...

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...and nothing else. Zhang helped give Chinese cinema an international profile with pics such as "Red Sorghum" and "Raise the Red Lantern," so it�s a fair bet the ceremony will include a few splashes of that color. For the moment, Zhang�s...

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