Flowers of Shanghai [videorecording] / Winstar Cinema release, Shochiku Co., Ltd. presents a 3H Film Productions of a film by Hou Hsiao-Hsien ; producers, Yang Teng-Kuei, Shozo Ichiyama ; screenplay writer, Chu Tien-Wen ; director, Hou Hsiao-Hsien.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: FLV5289 | Fox Lorber FilmsLanguage: Chinese Summary language: English Publication details: New York, NY : Fox Lorber Films ; distributed by Winstar Home Video, [2001], c1998.Edition: Widescreen versionDescription: 1 videodisc (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN: - 0794201059
- Hai shang hua lie chuan
- Cinematographer, Mark Lee Ping-Bin ; music, Yoshihiro Hanno ; production designer, Hwarng Wern-Ying.
- Asia-Pacific Film Festival: 1998, Best Art Director (Wen-Ying Huang); Best Director (Hsiao-hsien Hou)
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Dr. James Carlson Library | DVD | WORLD Flowers | Available | 33111004282188 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Hou Hsiao-hsien (Goodbye South, Goodbye) directed this Taiwanese-Japanese period drama set in the British section brothels of 19th-century Shanghai. Chu Tien-wen's screenplay was adapted from Han Ziyun's 1894 novel Haishang Huia Liezhuang (Biographies of Flowers of Shanghai), translated from the original dialect to Mandarin during the '30s by Shanghai writer Eileen Chang. Around 1884, during the closing years of Imperial China, Crimson (Japanese actress Michiko Hada) worries that she's about to be dropped by civil servant Wang (Tony Leung Chiu-wai), since he's spending so much time with Jasmin (Wei Hsiao-hui). Emotions escalate when word arrives that Wang will relocate to another post in the Canton province. Shown in competition at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. ~ Bhob Stewart, Rovi
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.
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.
MPAA rating: Not rated.
DVD.
Mandarin dialogue, English subtitles.
Asia-Pacific Film Festival: 1998, Best Art Director (Wen-Ying Huang); Best Director (Hsiao-hsien Hou)