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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.
海上花 presented by 松竹株式会社, 三三電影製作有限公司 ; 侯孝賢映像製作有限公司出品 ; 監製, 楊登魁, 市山尚三 ; 編劇, 朱天文 ; 導演, 侯孝賢 = 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.
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- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Criterion collection ; 1077.
- The Criterion collection, 1077
- Standardized Title:
- Hai shang hua (Motion picture)
- Language:
- Chinese
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Han, Bangqing, 1856-1894.
- Prostitutes.
- Brothels.
- Prostitution.
- China--Shanghai.
- Prostitution--China--Shanghai--Drama.
- Brothels--China--Shanghai--19th century--Drama.
- Prostitutes--China--Shanghai--19th century--Drama.
- Man-woman relationships--Drama.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Han, Bangqing, 1856-1894--Film adaptations.
- Han, Bangqing.
- Genre:
- Film adaptations.
- Drama.
- Romance films.
- Historical films.
- Feature films.
- Fiction films.
- Motion pictures, Chinese.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (43 pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm).
- plastic
- 4 3/4 in.
- stamping
- polychrome
- color
- Edition:
- DVD special edition.
- Other Title:
- Flowers of Shanghai
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2021]
- Language Note:
- Shanghainese and Cantonese dialogue; optional English subtitles.
- System Details:
- DVD; NTSC; region 1; wide screen (1.85:1); Dolby digital 5.1 surround.
- digital
- optical
- surround
- 5.1 Dolby digital
- wide screen
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- 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.
- Participant:
- Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Michiko Hada, Michelle Monique Reis, Carina Lau Ka-ling, Jack Kao, Rebecca Pan, Wei Hsaio-hui, Fang Hsuan.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Mark Lee; music by Hanno Yoshihiro; edited by Liao Ching-sung.
- Notes:
- Based on "The Sing-song girls of Shanghai" by Han Ziyun.
- Wide screen (1.85:1).
- Restored by the 22nd Shanghai International Film Festival.
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1998.
- For private home use only.
- 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.
- ISBN:
- 9781681438344
- 1681438348
- OCLC:
- 1242885181
- Publisher Number:
- 715515258913
- 00715515258913 gtin-14
- CC3253DDVD The Criterion Collection
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