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Hai shang hua /

海上花 /
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The gorgeous period reverie by Hou Hsiao-hsien traces the romantic intrigue and jealousies swirling around four late-nineteenth-century Shanghai "flower houses", where the courtesans live confined to a gilded cage.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Zhu, Tianwen (Screenwriter), Leung, Tony Chiu Wai, 1962- (Actor), Hada, Michiko, 1968- (Actor), Reis, Michelle Monique, 1970- (Actor), Liu, Jialing, 1964- (Actor), Gao, Jie, 1958- (Actor), Pan, Dihua (Actor), Hanno, Yoshihiro (composer (expression)), Li, Pingbin, 1954- (director of photography.), Rayns, Tony (on-screen participant.), Ma, Jean, 1972- (Writer of accompanying material), Berry, Michael, 1974- (Interviewer), Han, Bangqing, 1856-1894
Format: Video Blu-ray Disc
Language:Chinese
Language Notes:Shanghainese and Cantonese dialogue; optional English subtitles.
Published: [New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2021]
Edition:Blu-ray special edition.
Series:Criterion collection ; 1077.
Subjects:
Prostitution > China > Shanghai > Drama.
Brothels > China > Shanghai > 19th century > Drama.
Prostitutes > China > Shanghai > 19th century > Drama.
Man-woman relationships > Drama.
Man-woman relationships.
Brothels.
Prostitutes.
Prostitution.
China > Shanghai.
1800-1899
Romance films.
Historical films.
Film adaptations.
Fiction films.
Drama.
Feature films.
Motion pictures.
Foreign films.
Motion pictures, Japanese.
Motion pictures, Taiwanese.

Evans: Media and Reserves (Annex 1st floor)

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Shelving Title: Flowers of Shanghai
Call Number: PN1995.9.F67 H347 2021
 
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