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Flowers of Shanghai
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EAFFI Discoveries

113 mins – Taiwan / Japan 1998 – Subtitles
Director: Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Starring: Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Michiko Hada and Michelle Reis


East Asia Film Festival Ireland (EAFFI) is delighted to present FLOWERS OF SHANGHAI in a beautiful digital 4K restoration for the Lunar New Year 2025: Year of the Snake.

FLOWERS OF SHANGHAI is a hypnotic human comedy based on Han Ziyun’s 1894 masterpiece novel, Hai Shang Hua. Directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien (EAFFI guest of honour, 2017) and scripted by Chu Tien-Wen, it depicts life in the elegant brothels or ‘flower houses’ found in Shanghai’s foreign concessions in the late Qing dynasty in 1884, where prominent figures were received by ‘flower girls’, in an enclosed world with its own codes, money negotiations, romantic intrigues, and tensions. Told though a series of vignettes shot in exquisite long takes by Hou’s long time collaborator, Mark Lee Ping-Bing creates a ‘glamorous realism’ of lush, gilded, gas-lit interiors and close-range details of the smallest gestures and facial expressions. This is one of Hou’s most celebrated and most stunning works.

FESTIVALS & AWARDS: Official Competition, Cannes International Film Festival 1998; Winner: Best Art Direction and Jury Award, Golden Horse Film Festival 1999



Thu 30 Jan 2025
18:00

113 mins – Taiwan / Japan 1998 – Subtitles
Director: Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Starring: Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Michiko Hada and Michelle Reis


East Asia Film Festival Ireland (EAFFI) is delighted to present FLOWERS OF SHANGHAI in a beautiful digital 4K restoration for the Lunar New Year 2025: Year of the Snake.

FLOWERS OF SHANGHAI is a hypnotic human comedy based on Han Ziyun’s 1894 masterpiece novel, Hai Shang Hua. Directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien (EAFFI guest of honour, 2017) and scripted by Chu Tien-Wen, it depicts life in the elegant brothels or ‘flower houses’ found in Shanghai’s foreign concessions in the late Qing dynasty in 1884, where prominent figures were received by ‘flower girls’, in an enclosed world with its own codes, money negotiations, romantic intrigues, and tensions. Told though a series of vignettes shot in exquisite long takes by Hou’s long time collaborator, Mark Lee Ping-Bing creates a ‘glamorous realism’ of lush, gilded, gas-lit interiors and close-range details of the smallest gestures and facial expressions. This is one of Hou’s most celebrated and most stunning works.

FESTIVALS & AWARDS: Official Competition, Cannes International Film Festival 1998; Winner: Best Art Direction and Jury Award, Golden Horse Film Festival 1999



A beautiful, tantalizingly oblique, and thoroughly hypnotic film, a work so sensual that one can nearly smell the perfume wafting from the screen.
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