Flowers of Shanghai Hai shang hua

DVD - 2021

In four late-nineteenth-century Shanghai "flower houses", courtesans live confined to opulent splendor but are forced to work to buy back their freedom, and romantic intrigue, jealousies and tensions roil around their assignations.

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Subjects
Genres
Romance films
Historical films
Film adaptations
Fiction films
Feature films
Motion pictures
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Published
[Irvington, NY] : The Criterion Collection [2021]
Language
Chinese
English
Other Authors
Xiaoxian Hou, 1947- (film director), Tianwen Zhu (screenwriter), Dengkui Yang (film producer), Shōzō Ichiyama (Interviewer), Michael Berry, 1974- (actor), Tony Chiu Wai Leung, 1962- (writer of accompanying material), Michiko Hada, 1968- (-), Michelle Monique Reis, 1970-, Jialing Liu, 1964-, Jie Gao, 1958-, Dihua Pan, Jean Ma, 1972-, Bangqing Han, 1856-1894
Edition
DVD special edition ; DVD edition
Item Description
Originally released as a motion picture in 1998.
Based on "The Sing-song girls of Shanghai" by Han Ziyun.
Wide screen (1.85:1).
Special features: new introduction by critic Tony Rayns; new documentary "Beautified realism" by Daniel Raim and Eugene Suen on the making of the film, featuring behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with Lee, producer and editor Liao Ching-sung, production designer Hwarng Wern-ying, and sound recordist Tu Duu-chih; excerpts from a 2015 interview with Hou, recorded as part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Oral History Projects; trailer.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
Format
DVD, wide screen (1.85:1); Dolby digital 5.1 surround, region 1.
Audience
Unrated.
Production Credits
Director of photography, Mark Lee Ping-Bing ; music by Yoshihiro Hanno ; edited by Liao Ching-sung.
ISBN
9781681438344
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