DVD, wide screen (1.85:1); Dolby digital 5.1 surround.
Language
Chinese dialogue; English subtitles.
Note
Title from container.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1998.
Cast
Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Michiko Hada.
Summary
The gorgeous period reverie by Hou Hsiao-hsien traces the romantic intrigue and jealousies swirling around four late-nineteenth-century Shanghai "flower houses", where the courtesans live confined to a gilded cage.