Hurinnseikoui

2018
December 8, 2018

A woman, through an arranged marriage, is wed to an affluent old man whom she doesn’t love. She finds solace in one of her husband’s servants. She falls for the servant and makes love to him, but there will be grave consequences if they get caught.

Red Sorghum

1987

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.