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Author:

Hai shang hua (Motion picture)

Title:

Flowers of Shanghai = Hai shang hua / presented by Shochiku Co., 3H Productions ; a Hou Hsiao-Hsien film ; produced by Hou Hsaio-Hsien Shozo Ichiyama ; screenplay by Chu Tien-wen ; directed by Hou Hsaio-Hsien.

Edition:

DVD special edition ; DVD edition.

Publisher:

The Criterion Collection,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Han, Bangqing,--1856-1894--Film adaptations.
Prostitution--Shanghai--Shanghai--Drama.
Brothels--Shanghai--Shanghai--19th century--Drama.
Prostitutes--Shanghai--Shanghai--19th century--Drama.
Man-woman relationships--Drama.
Romance films.
Historical films.
Film adaptations.
Fiction films.
Feature films.
Motion pictures.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Authors:

Hou, Xiaoxian, 1947- interviewee. interviewee.
Zhu, Tianwen, screenwriter.
Yang, Dengkui, film producer.
Ichiyama, Shōzō, film producer.
Berry, Michael, 1974- interviewer.
Leung, Tony Chiu Wai, 1962- actor.
Hada, Michiko, 1968- actor.
Reis, Michelle Monique, 1970- actor.
Liu, Jialing, 1964- actor.
Gao, Jie, 1958- actor.
Pan, Dihua, actor.
Hanno, Yoshihiro, composer (expression)
Li, Pingbin, 1954- director of photography.
Liao, Qingsong, 1950- editor of moving image work.
Rayns, Tony, on-screen participant.
Ma, Jean, 1972- writer of accompanying material.
Motion picture adaptation of (work) : Han, Bangqing, 1856-1894. Hai shang hua lieh chuan.
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.

Notes:

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. Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Michiko Hada, Michelle Reis, Carina Lau, Jack Kao, Rebecca Pan, Vicky Wei , Hsuan Fang.

Summary:

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.

Series:

Criterion collection, 1077.

ISBN:

1681438348
9781681438344

UPC:

715515258913

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

CBPF522 -- Coralville Public Library (Coralville)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)