Product Description: Hou Hsiao-hsien’s ravishing chamber drama traces the fortunes of courtesans in 19th-century Shanghai flower houses An intoxicating, time-bending experience bathed in the golden glow of oil lamps and wreathed in an opium haze, this gorgeous period reverie by Hou Hsiao-hsien traces the romantic intrigue, jealousies, and tensions swirling around four late-nineteenth-century Shanghai “flower houses,” where the courtesans live confined to a gilded cage, ensconced in opulent splendor but forced to work to buy back their freedom.
Among the regular clients is the taciturn Master Wang (Tony Leung Chiu-wai), whose relationship with his longtime mistress (Michiko Hada) is roiled by a perceived act of betrayal.
Composed in a languorous procession of entrancing long takes, Flowers of Shanghai evokes a vanished world of decadence and cruelty, an insular universe where much of the dramatic action remains tantalizingly offscreen—even as its emotional fallout registers with quiet devastation.
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JUMP BACK TO TOPDirector: Hsiao-Hsien Hou
Starring: Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Michiko Hada, Michelle Reis
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 113 min
Rating: Not Rated
Language: Mandarin
Studio: Criterion
Home Video Release Date: May 18, 2021
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- Codec: MPEG-2
- Resolution: 480i
- Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
- Encoding Format: 16:9
- Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)
Blu-ray
- Codec: MPEG-4 AVC
- Resolution: 1080p
- Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
- Region: Region A/1
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- DVD: None
- Blu-ray: None
Audio Formats:
- DVD: Dolby Digital 5.1
- Blu-ray: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
SUBTITLES
JUMP BACK TO TOPDVD: English
Blu-ray: English
SPECIAL FEATURES & EXTRAS
JUMP BACK TO TOP- New introduction by critic Tony Rayns
- Beautified Realism, a new documentary by Daniel Raim and Eugene Suen on the making of the film
- Excerpts from a 2015 interview with Hou, recorded for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Oral History Projec
- Excerpts from a 2015 interview with Hou, recorded for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Oral History Project
- Trailer
- PLUS: An essay by film scholar Jean Ma and a 2009 interview with Hou conducted by scholar Michael Berry
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