Red Sorghum (红高粱, Hong gao liang), Zhang Yimou, 1987

An old leper who owned a remote sorghum winery dies. Jiuer, 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 quasimatriarchal community headed by Jiuer. 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.