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A new documentary by Daniel Raim and Eugene Suen on the making of “Flowers of Shanghai,” featuring behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with Mark Lee Ping-bing, producer and editor Liao Ching-sung, production designer Hwarng Wern-ying, and sound recordist Tu Duu-chih. Cast.
- Daniel Raim
- The Criterion Collection
May 28, 2021 · An intoxicating, time-bending experience bathed in the golden glow of oil lamps and wreathed in an opium haze, this gorgeous period reverie by Hou Hsiao-hsien traces the romantic intrigue, jealousies, and tensions swirling around four late-nineteenth-century Shanghai “flower houses,” where courtesans live confined to a gilded cage ...
126 minutes. Country. Taiwan. Language. Mandarin. Daughter's Daughter (Chinese: 女兒的女兒) is a 2024 Taiwanese drama film directed and written by Huang Xi, marking her second feature after Missing Johnny (2017), and co-produced by Hou Hsiao-hsien and Sylvia Chang. Chang also stars in a lead role, alongside Karena Lam and Eugenie Liu, with ...
Jan 15, 2021 · Hou Hsiao-hsien’s 1998 film "Flowers of Shanghai," which follows the lives of courtesans from four different Qing-era "flower houses," has just been rereleased in a 4k restoration. It is currently playing in virtual theaters across the U.S.
May 16, 2021 · We continue our discussion of the work of Hou Hsiao-hsien, this time with a focus on The Time to Live and The Time to Die, the second in his cycle of autobiographical films after The Boys from Fenkuei. In the podcast below, we discuss what is depth in this film and talk about Hou's…
Beautified Realism: The Making of Flowers of Shanghai (2021) Documentary for Criterion's edition of Hou Hsiao-hsien's FLOWERS OF SHANGHAI. SYNOPSIS:
Saturday, January 20, 5:30 p.m. (Encore) | Chronicling the growing estrangement between a washed-up baseball player (Hou Hsiao-hsien, in a rare on-screen performance) working in his family’s textile business and his girlfriend (pop star Tsai Chin), who clings to the upward mobility of her career, Yang’s second feature is a mournful anatomy ...
