Outreach
Video Lending Library
China
- Program Title: Flower of Shanghai
- EASC Code: CF-07
- Series Title:
- Region/Country: China, Taiwan, Japan
- Language: Mandarin
- Subtitles: English, Chinese
- Subject: Movie & TV Drama
- Program Type: Feature
- Media Type: DVD & VHS
- Director: Hou Hsiao-hsien
- Producer: Ichiyama Shozu
- Release Date: 1998
- Running Time: 110 min.
- Color or BW: Color
- Program Abstract: An opulent portrayal of the "flower houses"--expensive brothels--of Shanghai in the late 19th century. Strict rules of conduct govern the women and their suitors, making for a complex web of relations and highly stylized language between the two central characters Master Wang (Tony Leung) and Crimson (Michiko Hada).
- Data Entry Date: 12/1/2000
