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Flowers of Shanghai(Movie, 1998)

Original title: "海上花" (Chinese (Mandarin)/ZH)
1h 53min | Genre: Drama
Flowers of ShanghaiRating: 3.5/5 (with 4040 votes)
Flowers of Shanghai is a 1998 Taiwanese drama film directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien. It is based on the novel The Sing-song Girls of Shanghai (1892) by Han Bangqing, which was originally written in the Wu language (吳語) and translated into Mandarin Chinese by Eileen Chang. The film stars Tony Leung as a wealthy patron and Hada Michiko, Annie Shizuka Inoh, Shuan Fang, Jack Kao, Carina Lau, Rebecca Pan, Michelle Reis and Vicky Wei as "flower girls" in four high-end Shanghai brothels. It was voted the third best film of the 1990s in the Village Voice Film Poll conducted in 1999. The film was selected as the Taiwanese entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 71st Academy Awards. ()
Movie poster of Flowers of Shanghai

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About Flowers of Shanghai

The lives of high-end prostitutes and their interactions with their clients in 4 brothels in fin de siècle Shanghai.

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Additional Information

Production countries: Japan, Taiwan
Plays in: Shanghai
Original language: Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Spoken languages: Chinese (Cantonese) (CN), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Translated into 11 languages: German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Georgian (KA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Russian (RU), Turkish (TR), Vietnamese (VI), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 10/01/1998
Director: Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Producer: Yang Teng-kuei
Screenwriter: Chu Tien-wen, Eileen Chang
Director of Photography: Mark Lee Ping Bin
Composer: Yoshihiro Hanno
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"侯孝賢"
"Hai shang hua"
"Die Blumen von Schanghai"
"Les Fleurs de Shanghai"
"フラワーズ・オブ・シャンハイ"
"해상화"
"The Flowers of Shanghai"

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