There's a whole world under the surface and only Ron has any idea about it. And sometimes the two worlds collide, and sometimes they don't. Ron holds them at arm's length from each other. Watch every ...

An unexpected work, the film emerged out of the ashes of a failed project to shoot a biopic of Zheng Chenggong, otherwise known as Koxinga, a Chinese Ming loyalist who fought against the emergent Qing ...

Hou's latest film (and his first not to be set in Taiwan) delves into the complicated sexual politics of late 19th-century Shanghai brothels. The power plays here swirl seductively around the madams ...

The filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien’s entrancing Flowers of Shanghai (1998) unfolds in a revolving world. Its action occurs inside a brothel in the British quarter of late-19th-century Shanghai, where a ...

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series affords New York audiences a rare chance to absorb the work of one of the greatest living filmmakers. Flowers of Shanghai might initially seem like atypical Hou (who is currently completing his ...