Hai shang hua /

海上花 /

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.

Description
Summary:	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.
Item Description:	Originally released as a motion picture in 1998. Based on "The Sing-song girls of Shanghai" by Han Ziyun. Wide screen (1.85:1). Restored by the 22nd Shanghai International Film Festival. 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; Plus: booklet with an essay by film scholar Jean Ma and a 2009 interview with Hou conducted by scholar Michael Berry.
Physical Description:	1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (43 pages : color illustrations ; 17 cm)
Format:	Blu-ray, region A; wide screen (1.85:1); DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1.
Audience:	Unrated.
Production Credits:	Director of photography, Mark Lee; music by Hanno Yoshihiro; edited by Liao Ching-sung.
ISBN:	9781681438337 168143833X