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Flowers of Shanghai / Hai shang hua (1998) [Criterion Collection]
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Flowers of Shanghai / Hai shang hua (1998) [Criterion Collection, Spine #1077]
BDRip 1080p | MKV | AVC, 1920x1040, ~ 4.1 Mbps | 1hr 54mn | 4.37 GB | Chinese (中文): DTS, 6 ch, 1510 kbps
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama
BDRip 1080p | MKV | AVC, 1920x1040, ~ 4.1 Mbps | 1hr 54mn | 4.37 GB | Chinese (中文): DTS, 6 ch, 1510 kbps
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama
Director: Hsiao-Hsien Hou
Writer: Eileen Chang (translation), T'ien-wen Chu
Stars: Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Michiko Hada, Michelle Reis
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 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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