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Flowers of Shanghai
Directed by
Hou Hsiao-hsien
Not Rated
1998
1h 53m
Drama
,
Romance
7.3
93%
78%
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In the "flower houses" (upscale brothels) of Shanghai, various interweaving stories of love, loyalty, and deceit play out subtly.
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Cast of Flowers of Shanghai
Tony Leung
Wang
Michiko Hada
Crimson
Carina Lau
Pearl
Michele Reis
Emerald
Jack Kao
Luo
Rebecca Pan
Huang
Stephanie Fong Shuan
Jade
Annie Shizuka Inoh
Golden Flower
Vicky Wei
Jasmin
Firebird Liu
Vagabond #2
Hsu Hui-Ni
Shu-Fang's sister
Shuan Fang
Jade
Hsiao-Hui Wei
Hsu Ming
Tao
Josephine A. Blankstein
Simon Chang
Zhu Suren
Tony Chang
Peking Opera Actor
Yiu-Ming Lee
Azhu
Yu-han Lin
Treasure
Wei-kuo Chiang
Yu-Hang Lee
Tang
Tsai-erh Luo
Hong
Moon Wang
Xie Yan
Hou Hsiao-hsien
Director
Chu Tien-Wen
Writer
Yang Teng-Kuei
Producer
Shôzô Ichiyama
Producer
Flowers of Shanghai Ratings & Reviews
InSession Film
Brian Susbielles
Shanghai is made with such sophistication that maybe one viewing won't be enough to go through the deep layers of emotion between the flower pedals.
Newcity
Ray Pride
The dreaminess is compounded by Hou's unmatched mastery of extended takes, choreographing the story of class and commerce like a calm yet powerful stream.
Backseat Mafia
Rob Aldam
A sumptuous and opulent tale which is bathed in glorious colours.
Film Frenzy
Matt Brunson
So confined in its setting that it easily could have been based on (or turned into) a play.
Chicago Reader
Berenice Reynaud
The film opens with a brilliant seven-minute take; the languid yet precise cinematography throughout gives it the seductive power of a drug-induced dream.
City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul
Rob Nelson
Flowers of Shanghai is a beautiful, tantalizingly oblique, and thoroughly hypnotic film, a work so sensual that one can nearly smell the perfume wafting from the screen.
Lessons of Darkness
Nick Schager
Sympathetically depicts ... consuming, love-sick ennui.
Looking Closer
Jeffrey Overstreet
Each scene of Flowers is like an exquisite and decorous mural, worth studying.
Miami Herald
Marta Barber
It's beautiful to look at, but you must have patience to enjoy it.
MovieMartyr.com
Jeremy Heilman
It probably isn't Hou's best film, but perhaps it is his prettiest.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
Hou's a gifted director, as even his poorer films are quite good.
Combustible Celluloid
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Contains an artistry, beauty, restraint, and patience that perhaps only Stanley Kubrick, Max Ophuls, or Kenji Mizoguchi possessed.
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