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	Flowers of Shanghai (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Flowers is divided into chapters named after the concubines, each tracing, enigmatically and obliquely, her character and fate, each an enclosure opening into the next but never escaping from the labyrinth.
		Most of these "flowers" are hardheaded and mercenary, such as the conniving but charismatic Emerald (Michele Monique Reis, bringing dewy features to a Bette Davis gorgon), the successful suitor for freedom mentioned above, a beauty without illusions who backstabs her colleagues and manipulates her men to fulfill her desires.
		With Shanghai, his first genuine period picture, Hou has refined realism into the ultimate artifice, has demonstrated that the elusive bloom of love that persists in all his bleak melodramas is inevitably crushed by our elaborate means of possessing it.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/movies/00/04/06/FLOWERS_OF_SHANGHAI.html (671 words)

	Shanghai Travel Guide, Shanghai Tours, Shanghai Map
		Bordering on Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces on the west, Shanghai is washed by the East China Sea on the east.
		Shanghai has an urban area of 2,057 square kilometres, land area of 6,219 square kilometres and water area of 122 square kilometres.
		The propeller symbolizes the continuous advancement of the city; the large junk, one of the oldest vessels plying Shanghai's harbour, represents the long history and bright future of the port; and the large junk is set against a white magnolia flower blossoming in the early spring.
	www.sinowaytravel.com /shanghai-travel-tour.htm (708 words)

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		Flowers is set in mainland China during the late 19th century, and is a character-driven saga about a trio of "flower girls" — a Chinese variation on a hostess.
		Flowers is based on a novel by Shanghai writer Han Ziyun called Hai Shang Hua (Flowers of Shanghai).
		The third flower girl is charming Japanese actress Michiko Hada, at Cannes in 1994 with the Japanese mystery thriller, Rampo.
	www.filmfestivals.com /cannes98/selofus24.htm (713 words)

	Flowers of Shanghai Movie: Flowers of Shanghai DVD is available from Bestprices.com
		The "flower girls" are played by some of the most beautiful and respected Asian actresses: Michiko Hada, Michelle Reis, Carina Lau, and Vicky Wei, who turn in strong, nuanced performances.
		FLOWERS OF SHANGHAI is the first Hou Hsiao-Hsien film to be shot entirely in a studio.
		With the exception of a few instances of Cantonese spoken by Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, FLOWERS OF SHANGHAI is told in Shanghainese dialect, a choice Hou made for accuracy in period detail, as well as to emphasize historical distance, since Mandarin is now the official dialect of China.
	www.bestprices.com /cgi-bin/vlink/720917528922.html?associate=122484 (451 words)

	Flowers of Shanghai (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The movie circulates around a brothel in late 1800's Shanghai, where the workers ("flower girls") and their clients interact.
		Now, before you call me an intellectual philistine, I know that movies don't need explosions or bare breasts to be good, but Flowers of Shanghai is so slow-moving and so talky, it bored me within the first fifteen minutes or so and it was a struggle to get to the end.
		Flowers of Shanghai comes off as more as a stage play put on film than anything else.
	www.hkfilm.net /flowers.htm (465 words)

	Parametric Narration and Optical Transition Devices: Hou Hsiao-hsien and Robert Bresson in Comparison
		Flowers of Shanghai's (1998) interpretation of these three aesthetic principles – repetition, non-signifying imagery, and addition by way of subtraction – mark the film as perhaps Hou Hsiao-hsien's most Bressonian effort, at least in its approach to narrative organisation.
		Second, by convention, filmmakers largely exercise all possible precautions to ensure that POV shots flow with the action and the shots that come before and after in the editing scheme by making shot transitions between these elements as “imperceptible” as possible – by covering their tracks, as it were.
		Shanghai's narration begins by utilising fades to segment relatively complete or independent scenes or episodes of the plot, in which the elliptical function of the device, for the most part, remains intact.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/04/33/hou_hsiao_hsien_bresson.html (6724 words)

	Shanghai - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shanghai had been a centre for refugees as early as 1919 when large numbers of White Russians fleeing revolution and civil war took up residence there.
		Shanghai's new financial district (not pictured) is on the east side of the Huangpu River.
		Husbands in Shanghai often simultaneously play the roles of a bread-winner, father, cook, plumber, carpenter, etc. Interestingly, this view, though outmoded in the context of the modern age, is still one of the first things these people think of at the mention of Shanghai.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shanghai (6697 words)

	Hai shang hua (1998) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Plot Summary: Shanghai, the 1880s, four elegant brothels (flower houses): each has an auntie (the madam), a courtesan in her prime...
		Shanghai Flowers certainly lacks the occasional subtle high/low found in Wong's movies - no matter how slow.
		A tidbit to add is that, although listed as spoken in Shanghainese (which is understood by mainly Shanghai ppl only), the dialogues in private between the lead actor (Leung) and his mistress were done in Cantonese.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0156587 (376 words)

	Amazon.com: Flowers of Shanghai: DVD: Annie Shizuka Inoh,Michiko Hada,Michelle Reis,Tony Leung Chiu Wai,Jack ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		At the same time, "Flowers of Shanghai" avoids the manipulation pretty much inherent to film and video - the viewer is not guided by the camera or the editing almost at all, and is therefore forced to take an unusually active role in his or her film experience.
		"Flowers of Shanghai" takes place in a brothel visited by very well to do Qing officials during the 1880's in Shanghai, a city notorious for its brothels between the late 19th century to the 1930's.
		Flower girls are purchased by the "aunties," the women who run the brothels, when they are 7 or 8.
	www.amazon.com /Flowers-Shanghai-Annie-Shizuka-Inoh/dp/B00005K9OM (2836 words)

	flowersofshanghai
		It's set in Shanghai, and is a tedious formal film shot entirely in the studio in long takes--all the shots are either of the lantern-lit dining rooms or of richly colored red and golden private chambers of the brothels.
		The flower houses were not only places for sex, but were where arranged marriages were made and where the elite met and played cards.
		In the main storyline, a Cantonese civil servant Wang (Leung), the most sympathetic of all the clients, leaves a flower girl named Crimson (Japanese actress Michiko Hada) after being with her for about five years under an arrangement that she take on no more clients and he foot all her expenses.
	www.sover.net /~ozus/flowersofshanghai.htm (661 words)

	Tales of Old Shanghai
		These little wild flowers should be encouraged, but it is hard, indeed, to make the women who come to weed our lawns distinguish between them and other wild plants of a less desirable nature.
		As a matter of fact, there are in Shanghai a number of modest little wild flowers that, if allowed a footing in the garden, will add greatly to its beauty and charm.
		A very lovely wild flower which sometimes finds its way into our gardens is the so-called day-flow spider wort (Commelina communis L) This has beautiful blossoms in which two large petals of the purest blue stick up like a mouse's ears.
	www.talesofoldchina.com /journal/1936/t-360503.htm (619 words)

	Combustible Celluloid film review - Flowers of Shanghai (1998), Hou Hsiao Hsien, Carina Lau, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, dvd ...
		Hou's latest film is Flowers of Shanghai, made in 1998 and released to great critical acclaim in Europe.
		The point is that part of the appeal of Flowers of Shanghai may be its severe rarity.
		Flower girls (with code names like "Jade," "Crimson," "Pearl," "Emerald," "Jasmine" and "Treasure") vie for the favor of Auntie, the richest customers and the greatest number of customers.
	www.combustiblecelluloid.com /flowshang.shtml (1024 words)

	DVDBeaver.com - DVD Comparison Hsiao-hsien Hou's Hai shang hua Flowers of Shanghai DVD Review Hsiao-hsien Hou Hai shang ...
		(aka "Hai shang hua" or "Flowers of Shanghai")
		Within the insular walls of the flower houses, these men create a stifling, dystopic world that revolves around their arrogance and vanity: they amuse themselves with incomprehensible drinking games, idly gossip about the affairs of other patrons, leisurely smoke opium, and indulge in the paid services of women.
		In essence, the flower houses are an idealized reflection of the patrons' own ambivalent feelings between love and passion, obligation and generosity, commitment and fidelity.
	www.dvdbeaver.com /film/Reviews/flowers_of_shanghai.htm (700 words)

	dOc DVD Review: Flowers of Shanghai (1998)
		So with Flowers of Shanghai being my first experience with his work, I have a strange, mixed impression of his style.
		Flowers of Shanghai is rewarding in some ways, but the approach of making the film so slow and conceptual seems very exclusionary.
		Flowers Of Shanghai is equal parts dramatic brilliance and arrogant snooze-fest.
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=1484 (1095 words)

	Flowers of Shanghai - Moviefone
		Hai shang hua (1998) Flowers of Shanghai Runtime: 130 min / Argentina:127 min (Buenos Aires...
		Flowers of Shanghai Movie - DVD Information on the Flowers of Shanghai Movie from Bestprices.com is available here.
		Flowers of Shanghai - Cast & Crew, movie showtimes, plot, synopsis, exclusive features, trailers, clips, theater listings, reviews, message boards, dvd, videos, rentals and more on Moviefone.
	movies.aol.com /movie/flowers-of-shanghai/1119849/main (164 words)

	Shanghai : In Depth : Recommended Books & Films \| Frommers.com
		Harriet Sergeant's equally entertaining Shanghai (Jonathan Cape, 1991) focuses on a shorter period (1920s and 1930s) and uses stories and anecdotes to bring to life Shànghai in its heyday.
		Considerably more academic but still fascinating, Beyond the Neon Lights: Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century (University of California Press, 1999) by Hanchao Lu gets past the myth and the hype to examine the daily lives of ordinary Shanghainese in their shíkù mén (stone frame) lane housing.
		Far darker visions of Shànghai are powerfully evoked in J. Ballard's personal novel, Empire of the Sun (V. Gollancz, 1984), based on his imprisonment as a child during the Japanese occupation; and in Nien Cheng's Life and Death in Shanghai (Grove Press, 1986), a memoir of her imprisonment during the Cultural Revolution.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/shanghai/0717020873.html (894 words)

	Shanghai-ed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Besides Shanghai, Wu Chinese is spoken in the two small coastal provinces of Zhejiang and Jiangsu, the municipality of Shanghai is squeezed in between the two provinces.
		Wu speakers are geographically isolated by the wide Yangtze River mouth in the north, and in the south by the mountainous terrain of northern Fujian province; to the east by the Pacific Ocean, and to the west by more mountains.
		Vernacular Shanghainese has become popular in Shanghai's underground music scene as something that brazenly challenges both Mandarin and Cantonese constraints in music, though Shanghainese tracks have still failed to reach the labels due to their limited market at the moment.
	www.shanghai-ed.com /board/message.php?id=30235 (987 words)

	Flowers of Shanghai
		The entire film takes place within the constricted confines of the flower houses (high-class brothels) in the British enclave of Shanghai in the 1880’s and follows the lives of the inhabitants of these houses and the infatuated men who attend them.
		It is an insular world — the outside is never glimpsed or even really referred to — time barely seems to pass by — nothing truly changes — one girl replaced by another — a customer replaced by another — and life goes on.
		I was fortunate enough to see this on the big screen and this DVD doesn't come close to capturing the depth of the cinematography.
	www.brns.com /pages3/drama146.html (831 words)

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	Flowers of Shanghai (1998)
		Then, predictably, he finds out that (a) maybe Crimson wasn't unfaithful after all; (b) he still loves her; (c) he has to pay some of her debts; (d) Jasmin has had a clandestine affair with his nephew; (e) what an idiot he was for not thinking before drinking.
		In a somewhat related story, another expensive flower girl, Emerald (Michelle Reis), buys her freedom with the help of her patron Luo (Jack Kao) and admonishes her former mistress not to ogle young guys.
		By the way, if you thought Michiko Hada was the best thing that happened to this film, make sure you see THE MYSTERY OF RAMPO, where her dreamy qualities are fully revealed.
	www.gotterdammerung.org /film/reviews/f/flowers-of-shanghai.html (623 words)

	Flowers of Shanghai (Hai Shang Hua) Film Review - Time Out Film (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The 'flower houses' of old Shanghai were technically brothels, but not primarily places for sex; at a time when arranged marriages were the norm, China's male elite patronised them to get an éducation sentimentale.
		In the other, a 'gentleman caller' and a cynical 'flower girl' conspire to profit from arranging to cover up the scandal of an attempted suicide.
		Each scene is a continuous take, bracketed by fades up from and back to fl; the one (crucial) exception is the insert of Wang's point-of-view as he witnesses Ms Crimson's unfaithfulness.
	www.timeout.com /film/66827.html (244 words)

	David Walsh reviews the 23rd Toronto International Film Festival: Part 2
		A number of critics and others have suggested that his new film, Flowers of Shanghai, is not up to his previous work.
		I don't know what conscious or unconscious mental processes went into Hou's decision to make Flowers of Shanghai, but my reading of the film suggests that it is a serious effort to come to terms with the present.
		It concerns the activities of a number of prostitutes and their clients in certain elegant Shanghai brothels in the late nineteenth century.
	wsws.org /arts/1998/oct1998/tff-o02.shtml (2030 words)

	FLOWERS OF SHANGHAI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Still, this film about the struggles of "flower girls" in a brothel is exquisitely shot, and if it ultimately adds up to less than the sum of its parts, it is still worth seeing as part of the ouvre of this gifted filmmaker.
		Hou seems a bit confused as in one segment, he puts in a voice-over from Leung's character, a patron of the brothel, even though the film had never been seen through his point of view and never really would again.
		Instead, the film moves from flower girl to flower girl examining their positions in this miniature community.
	pages.prodigy.net /zvelf/shanghai.htm (189 words)

	MovieMartyr.com - Flowers of Shanghai
		Nonetheless, I continue to be driven to see his films, since upon reflection or subsequent viewings I feel that I didn't just see an average film, but that I was transported into another world (I realize this is a huge cliché, but I can think of no other director that evokes this feeling so well.)
		Flowers of Shanghai probably isn't Hou's best film, (I'd have to say The Puppetmaster would qualify there, judging from what I've seen) but perhaps it is his prettiest.
		The very orange and very impressionistic film is set exclusively in a turn of the century Chinese brothel.
	www.moviemartyr.com /1997/flowersofshanghai.htm (375 words)

	Flowers of Shanghai — Infoplease.com
		Description: At the end of the 19th century, Shanghai is divided into several foreign concessions.
		In the British concession, a number of luxurious flower houses are reserved for the male elite of the city.
		Since Chinese dignitaries are not allowed to frequent brothels, these establishments are the only ones that these men can visit.
	www.infoplease.com /movies/17394 (119 words)

	Flowers of Shanghai (TAIWAN 1998)
		Flowers of Shanghai may be beautiful to look at, but honestly, what's all the fuss?
		Based on a novel by Han Zuyin, the film uses a series of vignettes to intercut two stories within the flower houses of Shanghai.
		Many actions that would be worth seeing—a midnight stroll where a fatal promise is made, an affair that destroys a character's relationship with a flower girl—are reported, rather than filmed.
	www.lovehkfilm.com /panasia/flowers_of_shanghai.htm (548 words)

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	scanners (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The camera is an observer at a table in a 19th century Shanghai brothel or “flower house,” where several clients are playing a drinking game.
		The only light in the shot is provided by a couple of curved lamps.
		(In fact, we will discover that the film will never venture outdoors.) Next to the patrons, standing, are their “flower girls.” Every now and then, promptly but gracefully, they light opium pipes or pour wine for their clients.
	blogs.suntimes.com /scanners/2006/07/opening_shots_flowers_of_shang.html (432 words)

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