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Title:
Flowers of Shanghai [blu-ray]
Edition:
Special edition.
Publication Date:
2021
2019
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Criterion Collection, [2021]
©2019
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN:
9781681438337
Abstract:
Follows the lives of five beautiful courtesans working in different brothels in nineteenth-century Shanghai.
General Note:
Originally released as a motion picture in 1998.
Based on the novel by Bangqing Han.
DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 surround, 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.
Performers:
Tony Chiu Wai Leung, Michiko Hada, Michelle Monique Reis, Carina Lau Ka-ling, Jack Kao.
Technical Details:
This is a Blu-ray disc made for Blu-ray disc players and will not play in standard DVD players.
Language:
Chinese
Additional Language:
In Shanghainese and Cantonese with English subtitles.
Audience:
Unrated.
