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title: "Red Sorghum: cast and crew"
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cast: 18
crew: 18
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# Red Sorghum (1988): cast and crew

18 cast and 18 crew, as credited (TMDB). Cast in billing order.

## Cast

- [Gong Li](https://film.one/person/gong-li.md) as Jiu'er
- [Jiang Wen](https://film.one/person/jiang-wen.md) as Yu
- [Teng Rujun](https://film.one/person/teng-rujun.md) as Uncle Luohan
- [Liu Ji](https://film.one/person/liu-ji.md) as Jiu'er's Son
- [Qian Ming](https://film.one/person/qian-ming.md) as Jiu'er's Grandmother
- [Ji Chunhua](https://film.one/person/ji-chunhua.md) as Sanpao
- [Zhai Chunhua](https://film.one/person/zhai-chunhua.md) as Hu Er
- [Jia Zhaoji](https://film.one/person/jia-zhaoji.md)
- [Zhang Yuxiang](https://film.one/person/zhang-yuxiang.md)
- [Zhou Guiyun](https://film.one/person/zhou-guiyun.md)
- [Yang Qianbin](https://film.one/person/yang-qianbin.md)
- [Xu Guoqing](https://film.one/person/xu-guoqing-1418430.md)
- Yao Er-ga
- Li Yusheng as Palanquin Porter
- Dong Kun
- [Zhang Yimou](https://film.one/person/zhang-yimou.md)
- Nie Laijing
- Hu Xiaoguang as Palanquin Porter

## Directing

- [Zhang Yimou](https://film.one/person/zhang-yimou.md): Director
- Yang Fengliang: Assistant Director

## Writing

- [Chen Jianyu](https://film.one/person/chen-jianyu.md): Writer
- Mo Yan: Novel
- [Zhu Wei](https://film.one/person/zhu-wei.md): Writer
- [Li Kezhi](https://film.one/person/li-kezhi.md): Writer

## Production

- [Wu Tianming](https://film.one/person/wu-tianming.md): Producer

## Camera

- [Gu Changwei](https://film.one/person/gu-changwei.md): Director of Photography
- [Lun Yang](https://film.one/person/lun-yang.md): Additional Photography

## Editing

- [Du Yuan](https://film.one/person/du-yuan.md): Editor

## Sound and music

- Gu Changning: Sound Designer
- [Zhao Jiping](https://film.one/person/zhao-jiping.md): Original Music Composer

## Art

- Gang Yang: Art Direction
- Lei Xiaogang: Property Master
- Liu Zhiren: Set Dresser

## Costume and make-up

- Sun Wei: Makeup Artist
- Liu Jianzhong: Costume Designer

## Lighting

- Ji Jianmin: Directing Lighting Artist

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