Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | Flowers of Shanghai
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| Other uniform titles: | Yang, Dengkui,
Ichiyama, Shōzō,
Hou, Xiaoxian, 1947-
Zhu, Tianwen,
Berry, Michael, 1974-
Leung, Tony Chiu Wai, 1962-
Hada, Michiko, 1968-
Reis, Michelle Monique, 1970-
Liu, Jialing, 1964-
Gao, Jie, 1958-
Pan, Dihua,
Hanno, Yoshihiro,
Li, Pingbin, 1954-
Liao, Qingsong, 1950-
Rayns, Tony,
Ma, Jean, 1972-
Motion picture adaptation of (work) : Han, Bangqing, 1856-1894. Hai shang hua lieh chuan.
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| Other authors / contributors: | Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
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| ISBN: | 9781681438344
1681438348
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| Sound characteristics: | digital
optical
surround
5.1 Dolby digital
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| Video characteristics: | NTSC
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file
DVD video region 1
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| Language / Script: | For private home use only.
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| 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.
Director of photography, Mark Lee; music by Hanno Yoshihiro; edited by Liao Ching-sung.
Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Michiko Hada, Michelle Monique Reis, Carina Lau Ka-ling, Jack Kao, Rebecca Pan, Wei Hsaio-hui, Fang Hsuan.
DVD, wide screen (1.85:1); Dolby digital 5.1 surround, region 1.
Shanghainese and Cantonese dialogue; English subtitles.
Title from disc surface.
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| 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.
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| Target Audience: | Unrated.
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| Standard no.: | 715515258913
00715515258913
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| Publisher's no.: | CC3253DDVD The Criterion Collection
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