TY - ADVS AU - Hada,Michiko AU - Hanno,Yoshihiro AU - Hsiao-Hsien,Hou AU - Ichiyama,Shozo AU - Kao,Jack AU - Lau,Carina AU - Leung,Tony Chiu Wai AU - Pan,Dihua AU - Ping-Bin,Mark Lee AU - Reis,Michele Monique AU - Teng-Kuei,Yang AU - Tien-Wen,Chu AU - Wei,Vicky AU - Wern-Ying,Hwarng AU - Ziyun,Han ED - 3H Film Productions (Firm) ED - Fox Lorber Films. ED - Shōchiku Kabushiki Kaisha. ED - WinStar Cinema (Firm) ED - WinStar TV and Video (Firm) TI - Flowers of Shanghai SN - 0794201059 PY - 2001///], c1998 CY - New York, NY PB - Fox Lorber Films, distributed by Winstar Home Video KW - DVD KW - Feature films KW - Prostitution KW - 19th century KW - Drama KW - Video recordings KW - Shanghai (China) KW - Foreign films KW - lcsh N1 - Based on the novel by Han Ziyun; Originally produced as a motion picture in 1998; 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; MPAA rating: Not rated N2 - 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 ER -