Flowers of Shanghai

DVD 1998

Set in late nineteenth-century Shanghai and takes place in an elegant brothel. With its own highly ritualized codes of behavior, the lives of the "Flower girls" depend on their ability to win, and then keep, the affections of their wealthy callers.

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Man-woman relationships Fiction

Prostitutes China Shanghai 19th century Fiction

Prostitution China Shanghai 19th century Fiction

More in this Genre:

Feature films Fiction films Foreign films Motion pictures, Chinese Video recordings

Part of a Series:

Criterion collection Criterion collection ; 1077 Criterion collection ; 1077 DVD

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ISBN:

9781681438344

Edition:

DVD Special edition

Description:

1 videodisc (113 minutes) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 inches
polychrome
digital
optical
surround
Dolby Digital 5.1
wide screen
NTSC
video file
DVD video
region 1

Target Audience Note:

Canadian Home Video Rating: Not rated

Notes:

Based on the novel by Han Ziyun
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1998
Title from container
Cinematographer, Mark Lee Ping-Bin ; music, Yoshihiro Hanno ; production designer, Hwarng Wern-Ying
Tony Leung, Michiko Hada, Michele Monique Reis, Carina Lau, Jack Kao, Rebecca Pan, Vicky Wei
DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1
For private home use only
Asia-Pacific Film Festival: 1998, Best Art Director (Wen-Ying Huang); Best Director (Hsiao-hsien Hou)
Audio track in Shanghainese and Chinese (Cantonese), with optional subtitles in English

Control Number:

3066066

UPC:

715515258913

Other Authors:

Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher
Gao, Jie, 1958- actor
Hada, Michiko, 1968- actor
Hanno, Yoshihiro, composer (expression)
Leung, Tony Chiu Wai, 1962- actor
Li, Pingbin, 1954- director of photography
Pan, Dihua, actor
Reis, Michelle Monique, 1970- actor
Wei, Vicky, actor

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