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Flowers of Shanghai(Chinese: 海上花) is a 1998 Taiwanese drama film directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien. The film is based on the 1892 novel The Sing-song Girls of Shanghai by Han Bangqing. It was voted the third best film of the 1990s in the 1999 Village Voice Film Poll. It stars Tony Leung as a wealthy patron and Hada Michiko, Annie Shizuka Inoh, Shuan Fang, Jack Kao, Carina Lau, Rebecca Pan, Michelle Reis, and Vicky Wei as "flower girls" in four high-end Shanghai brothels. The film won for Best Director and Best Art Director (Wen-Ying Huang) at the Asia-Pacific Film Festival in 1998, and the next year the director won the Golden Crow Pheasant at the International Film Festival of Kerala.


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"As a Shanghainese speaker, the book is fantastic as well. I think the film is a perfect example of how to adopt a book to screen. Basically most of the movie scenes are what the book glossed over, "then everyone eat, drink and partied.", and yet it was 100% faithful to the book. One of Hou's best movie ever." - Shane Liu

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In four elegant brothels, called "Flower Houses", in 1884 Shanghai, several affairs take place. The film follows four men who live for pleasure and pursue a number of courtesans which were known as "flower girls" then. Much of the film is about the quiet Master Wang, who leaves the courtesan Crimson at the end of their two-and-a-half-year relationship. He then fell for the younger courtesan Jasmin, angering Crimson.

Flowers of ShangHai (Chinese: 海上花) (1998)

"絕世經典." - T. Tokuyama