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
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[Irvington, NY] :
The Criterion Collection
[2021]
- Language
- Chinese
English - Other Authors
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- 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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