Time Network News In 1998, "Flowers on the Sea" directed by well-known Taiwanese director Hou Xiaoxian was shortlisted in the main competition unit of Cannes and topped the top ten list of the authoritative French film magazine "Cinema Manual". "Cinema Manual" critic Alain Bergala said, "The Flower on the Sea" is like Delacroix's famous painting "The Woman of Algiers", it is hailed as "painting the image in the mind" rather than recording what the eyes see now. view.
21 years later, the 4K restored version of "Flowers on the Sea" will be released in limited theaters in Taiwan, China on December 20. The film crew also released a new trailer, with Tony Leung’s voice-over throughout, under the lens of photographer Li Pingbin, Everything is like a dream. The film is starring Tony Leung, Michiko Haneda, Carina Lau, Li Kaxin and Gao Jie.
The film is adapted from Han Ziyun's "Biography of Flowers on the Sea" written in Suzhou dialect, which was "translated" by Zhang Ailing in the 1970s into Mandarin. The novel describes the brothel life in the British concession in Shanghai at the end of the 19th century. Because the Qing government forbids official prostitutes, only brothels in the concession area can openly receive the upper class. The story unfolds in a high-end brothel in a concession.
