Blush
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Cast & Crew
Wang Zhiwen
He Saifei
Zhang Liwei
Wang Rouli
Song Xiuling
Xing Yangchun
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In 1949, the new Communist regime is wiping out the ways of old China. Across the country, soldiers are shutting down red light districts and "re-educating" prostitutes as laborers. On the outskirts of Shanghai, in Suzhou, the girls from the Red Happiness Inn, a high class brothel, are rounded up. Qiuyi escapes and hides out with the love of her life, Lao Pu, the son of a well-to-do family, and a former client. When Lao Pu's mother learns of Qiuyi's sordid past, she is kicked out of the house. Lao Pu offers to marry Qiuyi, who's now pregnant, but she refuses. Qiuyi's life-long best friend, Xiao'e, has been "re-educated" but hates the hard, menial work of her new life as a factory laborer. With Qiuyi out of the way, she convinces Lao Pu to take care of her, and eventually to marry her. But as time goes by, Lao Pu realizes that he still loves Qiuyi. Now a common worker himself, Lao Pu is desperate to make up for what he did to Qiuyi, and is finally driven to extreme action to solve his problems.
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Released in United States 1995
Released in United States February 1995
Released in United States July 12, 1996
Released in United States October 1995
Released in United States on Video November 11, 1997
Released in United States Summer June 7, 1996
Awarded the Silver Bear at the 1995 Berlin International Film Festival.
Shown at Berlin International Film Festival (in competition) February 9-20, 1995.
Shown at Hamptons International Film Festival October 18-22, 1995.
Shown at Los Angeles (UCLA) Asian Pacific Film & Video Festival May 26 - June 4, 1995.
Based on a novel by Su Tong, author of "Raise the Red Lantern."
Released in United States 1995 (Awarded the Silver Bear at the 1995 Berlin International Film Festival.)
Released in United States 1995 (Shown at Los Angeles (UCLA) Asian Pacific Film & Video Festival May 26 - June 4, 1995.)
Released in United States February 1995 (Shown at Berlin International Film Festival (in competition) February 9-20, 1995.)
Released in United States Summer June 7, 1996
Released in United States July 12, 1996 (Laemmle's Music Hall; Los Angeles)
Released in United States October 1995 (Shown at Hamptons International Film Festival October 18-22, 1995.)
Released in United States on Video November 11, 1997
