880-01 Hai shang hua / presented by Shōchiku Kabushiki Kaisha, San san dian ying zhi zuo you xian gong si ; Songzhu zhu shi hui she ; Hou Xiaoxian ying xiang zhi zuo you xian gong si chu pin ; jian zhi, Yang Dengkui, Shishan Shangsan ; bian ju, Zhu Tianwen ; dao yan, Hou Xiaoxian = Flowers of Shanghai / presented by Shochiku Co., Ltd., 3H Productions ; a Hou Hsiao-Hsien film ; producers, Yang Denggui, Ichiyama Shozo ; screenplay by Chu Tien-wen ; directed by Hou Hsaio-Hsien.
Edition:
Blu-ray special edition.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2021
Description:
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (43 pages : color illustrations ; 17 cm)
Container of (work): Hai shang hua (Motion picture)
Notes:
Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Michiko Hada, Michelle Monique Reis, Carina Lau Ka-ling, Jack Kao, Rebecca Pan, Wei Hsaio-hui, Fang Hsuan. Originally released as a motion picture in 1998. Based on "The Sing-song girls of Shanghai" by Han Ziyun. Wide screen (1.85:1). Restored by the 22nd Shanghai International Film Festival. 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; Plus: booklet with an essay by film scholar Jean Ma and a 2009 interview with Hou conducted by scholar Michael Berry.
Summary:
The gorgeous period reverie by Hou Hsiao-hsien traces the romantic intrigue and jealousies swirling around four late-nineteenth-century Shanghai "flower houses", where the courtesans live confined to a gilded cage.
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