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\tToday, I will introduce a Chinese film which called Flowers of Shanghai<\/strong> (\u6d77\u4e0a\u82b1h\u01cei shàng hu\u0101). So let us have a brief introduction.<\/p>\n \tFlowers of Shanghai is a 1998 film, made in Taiwan, directed by Guangdong-born Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien<\/strong> (\u4faf\u5b5d\u8d24Hóu Xiàoxián) starring Hada Michiko<\/strong> (\u7fbd\u7530y\u01d4 tián), Annie Shizuka Inoh<\/strong> (\u4f0a\u80fd\u9759Y\u012b Néngjìng), Shuan Fang<\/strong>, Jack Kao<\/strong> (\u9ad8\u6377G\u0101o Jié), Carina Lau<\/strong> (\u5218\u5609\u73b2Liú Ji\u0101líng), Tony Leung <\/strong>(\u6881\u671d\u4f1fLiáng Cháow\u011bi), Rebecca Pan <\/strong>(\u6f58\u8fea\u534eP\u0101n Díhuá), Michelle Reis<\/strong> (\u674e\u5609\u6b23L\u01d0 Ji\u0101x\u012bn) and Vicky Wei<\/strong> (\u9b4f\u7b71\u60e0Wèi Xi\u01ceohuì). It was voted the third best film of the 1990s in the 1999 Village Voice Film Poll.<\/p>\n \tPlot<\/strong><\/p>\n \tIn four elegant brothels, called "Flower Houses", in fin-de-siècle 19th-century Shanghai (Qing dynasty), several affairs are described. The action involves four drunkards, and takes place mostly in candlelight. Preparation and consumption of opium and tea are at the center of the business operations.<\/p>\n \tSubtitles note that the girl Crimson is in Huifang, Pearl is in Gongyang, Emerald is in Shangren, and Jasmine is in East Hexing. The relations of the rich gentlemen with the courtesans is partly monogamous and is held to an obligation of many years. The life of the graceful, well-bred girls, who were young when bought, resembles in certain respects a life of slavery. Because of the oppressing social conventions, they dream to pay off their debts, or to marry into the freedom and higher conditions.<\/p>\n \tThis is a very fabulous film.
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