Flowers of Shanghai

Blu-ray 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

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Feature films Fiction films Foreign films Motion pictures, Chinese Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Part of a Series:

Criterion collection Criterion collection ; 1077 Criterion collection ; 1077 Blu-ray

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ISBN:

9781681438337

Edition:

Blu-ray special edition

Description:

1 videodisc (113 minutes) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 inches
polychrome
digital
optical
surround
DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
wide screen
HDTV
video file
Blu-ray video
region A

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
Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic wide screen format (1.85:1 aspect ratio) ; DTS-HD Master Audio 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:

3182818

UPC:

715515258814

Other Authors:

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

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