Flowers of Shanghai (1998)
Director: Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Running time: 2h 10m
Screenplay: Eileen Chang, Chu Tien-wen
Music director: Yoshihiro Hanno, Du Tuu-Chih
Initial release: October 17, 1998 (Japan)
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size:1.37 GB
Shanghai, the 1880s, four elegant brothels (flower houses): each has an auntie (the madam), a courtesan in her prime, older servants, and maturing girls in training. The men gather around tables of food, playing drinking games. An opium pipe is at hand. The women live within dark-paneled walls. The atmosphere is stifling, as if Chekov was in China. The melancholy Wang is Crimson's patron; will he leave her for the younger Jasmin? Emerald schemes to buy her freedom, aided by Luo, a patron. Pearl, an aging flower, schools the willful Jade, who thinks she has a marriage agreement with young master Zhu. Is she dreaming? Women fade, or connive, or despair.
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