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Janus Films |
Release Date:
October 5, 1998
Summary:
In Shanghai in the 1880s there are four elegant brothels (flower houses): each has an auntie (called madam), a courtesan in her prime, older servants, and maturing girls in training. The men gather around tables of food, playing drinking games. An opium pipe is at hand. The women live within dark-paneled walls. The atmosphere is stifling, as if Chekhov was in China. The melancholy Wang is Crimson's patron; will he leave her for the younger Jasmin? Emerald schemes to buy her freedom, aided by patron Luo. Pearl, an aging flower, schools the willful Jade, who thinks she has a marriage agreement with young master Zhu. Is she dreaming? Women fade, or connive, or despair.
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Details
| Runtime: | 125 min |
| Rating: | Unrated |
| Production: | Shochiku Company |
| Genres: | Drama |
| Countries: | Japan, Taiwan |
| Languages: | Cantonese, Shanghainese |
| Home Release Date: | May 18, 2021 |
| Director | Credit |
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| Hsiao-hsien Hou | Director |
| Writer | Credit |
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| Bangqing Han | Writer |
| Eileen Chang | Writer |
| T'ien-wen Chu | Writer |
| Cast | Credit |
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| An-an Hsu | Cast |
| Annie Shizuka Inoh | Golden Flower |
| Carina Lau | Pearl |
| Firebird Liu | Cast |
| Hsuan Fang | Jade |
| Hui-ni Hsu | Shu-Fang's Sister |
| Jack Kao | Luo |
| Michelle Reis | Emerald |
| Michiko Hada | Crimson |
| Ming Hsu | Tao |
| Moon Wang | Cast |
| Rebecca Pan | Huang |
| Shui Chit Cheung | Cast |
| Tony Leung Chiu Wai | Wang |
| Vicky Wei | Jasmin |
| Producer | Credit |
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| Shozo Ichiyama | Producer |
| Teng-Kuei Yang | Producer |
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