TAIWAN · 1998

Flowers of Shanghai

Hou Hsiao-hsien
Taiwan New Wave childhood innocence friendship and betrayal poverty and social class justice system and incarceration coming of age
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Two shoeshine boys in postwar Rome, Italy save up to buy a horse, but their involvement as dupes in a burglary lands them in juvenile prison; the experience take a devastating toll on their friendship.

Year1998
CountryTaiwan
DirectorHou Hsiao-hsien
Flowers of Shanghai poster

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