FLOWERS OF SHANGHAI is a Taiwanese period drama, from 1998, exploring the relationships between the courtesans of a 19th century high-class brothel in China and their male clients.

Drugs

There are frequent scenes in which characters smoke opium from hookahs and pipes of the period, or are shown in acts of drug preparation. There are also references to eating opium and to addiction. The drug misuse is presented as part of a lifestyle amongst a particular class of people in a particular historical period.

There are mild sex references. There is a reference to a man beating his wife because of her infidelity.