Flowers of Shanghai (DVD, 2001) 
Flowers of Shanghai (DVD, 2001)

 
Flowers of Shanghai (DVD, 2001)

Director: Hou Hsiao Hsien
Rating: Not Rated
Release Date: Aug 2001
Format: DVD
UPC: 720917528922
Product ID: EPID3332057
Description: Based on an 1894 novel by Han Ziyun, FLOWERS OF SHANGHAI explores the lavish, elegant, and decadent world of late 19th century Shanghai brothels. Master Wang (played by Hong Kong film star Tony Leung Chiu-Wai) and his friends are wealthy...
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Movie Description
Based on an 1894 novel by Han Ziyun, FLOWERS OF SHANGHAI explores the lavish, elegant, and decadent world of late 19th century Shanghai brothels. Master Wang (played by Hong Kong film star Tony Leung Chiu-Wai) and his friends are wealthy, privileged officials who spend all of their leisure time playing drinking games, eating rich foods, gambling, and smoking pipes full of opium, when visiting their favorite "flower girls." While the men are entertained and indulged in all forms of consumerism, the women tend to the hard business of sexual commerce: paying their bills, keeping close watch over their callers, and trying to save enough to buy their freedom. The "flower girls" are played by some of the most beautiful and respected Asian actresses: Michiko Hada, Michelle Reis, Carina Lau, and Vicky Wei, who turn in strong, nuanced performances. The first Hou Hsiao-Hsien film shot entirely within a studio, its restricted, enclosed sets evoke a sense of static rigidity. Hou perfectly captures the claustrophobic, innervated world of the brothels with fixed camera shots, long takes, and formal blackouts, creating a carefully drawn study of a dying place and time.

Credits
Producer:Ichiyama Shozu
Cast:Carina Lau, Jack Kao, Michele Reis, Michiko Hada, Shuan Fang

Details
Sound:HiFi Sound

Notes
DVD Features:

Region 0
Keep Case
Letterboxed - 1.85:1
Audio:
   Stereo - Mandarin
   Subtitles - English - Optional
Additional Release Materials:
   Trailer
Interactive Features:
   Scene Access
   Interactive Menus
DVD-ROM Features:
   Weblink, Theatrical Release: No U.S. release.

FLOWERS OF SHANGHAI is the first Hou Hsiao-Hsien film to be shot entirely in a studio. Although he wanted to shoot on location in Shanghai, the city had changed and developed too much to try to recreate the look of the late 19th century.
Hong Kong star Maggie Cheung was first offered the role of Crimson. When she declined, the role was given to Michiko Hada.

With the exception of a few instances of Cantonese spoken by Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, FLOWERS OF SHANGHAI is told in Shanghainese dialect, a choice Hou made for accuracy in period detail, as well as to emphasize historical distance, since Mandarin is now the official dialect of China.

Japanese actress Michiko Hada couldn't speak any of the Chinese dialects, so her lines were dubbed in later by Hong Kong actress Pauline Chan.

As is typical of his other films, Hou did not allow rehearsals, and shot extended take after take of each scene.

FLOWERS OF SHANGHAI earned Best Director and Best Art Director honors for Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Huang Wen-Ying at the 1998 Asia-Pacific Film Festival.

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