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Flowers of Shanghai is a taiwanais film of genre Drama directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien released in USA on 5 october 1998 with Annie Yi
Flowers of Shanghai (1998)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 5 october 1998
Length 2h10
Directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien
OriginTaiwan
Genres Drama
Rating72%
Flowers of Shanghai (Chinese: 海上花; pinyin: Hǎi Shàng Huā) is a 1998 Taiwanese film directed by Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-Hsien and starring Tony Leung, Hada Michiko, Annie Shizuka Inoh, Shuan Fang, Jack Kao, Carina Lau, Rebecca Pan, Michelle Reis and Vicky Wei. It was voted the third best film of the 1990s in the 1999 Village Voice Film Poll.
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In four elegant brothels, called "Flower Houses", in fin-de-siècle 19th-century Shanghai (Qing dynasty), several affairs are described. Events presumably take place in 1884, a year named in one of the scenes. The action involves four men who live for pleasure, and takes place mostly in the light of oil lamps, giving the film a claustrophobic feel. Preparation and consumption of opium and tea occur more than once, and dishes of food are served and hot towels prepared in several scenes.Actors
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