Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 91 min
- Language
- Chinese
- Country
- China
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- In Chinese — subtitles on.
The story
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.
- based on novel or book
- rural area
- distillery
- 1940s
- japanese occupation of china
- war crime
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Qian Ming — Jiu'er's Grandmother
- Ji Chunhua — Sanpao
- Zhai Chunhua — Hu Er
- Jia Zhaoji
- Zhang Yuxiang
- Zhou Guiyun
- Yang Qianbin
- Xu Guoqing
- Yao Er-ga
- Li Yusheng — Palanquin Porter
- Dong Kun
- Directed
- Zhang Yimou
- Written
- Zhu Wei, Chen Jianyu, Li Kezhi
Production
- Rating
- 7.2 / 10 · 253 ratings
- Studio
- Xi'an Film Studio
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
