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Brighter summer day

directed by Edward Yang
Yang, Dechang, 1947-2007 (screenwriter,, film producer,, film director.). Zhan, Hongzhi, (film producer.). Yu, Wei Yan, (film producer.). Hong, Hong, 1964- (screenwriter.). Lai, Ming-Tang, (screenwriter.). Yang, Lisa, (actor.). Zhang, Zhen, 1976- (actor.). Zhang, Guozhu, 1937- (actor.). Jin, Elaine, 1954- (actor.). Wang, Chuan, 1963- (actor.). Zhang, Han, 1974- (actor.). Ke, Yulun, 1977- (actor.). Wang, Bosen, (actor.). Zhang, Huigong, (director of photography.). Li, Longyu, (director of photography.). Chen, Bowen, 1953- (editor of moving image work.). Rayns, Tony, (commentator.). Xiao, Juzhen, 1972- (film director.). Hou, Xiaoxian, 1947- (interviewee (expression)). Zhang, Aijia, 1953- (interviewee (expression)). Cai, Mingliang, 1957- (interviewee (expression)). Cheshire, Godfrey, (writer of supplementary textual content.). Janus Films, (film distributor.). Criterion Collection (Firm), (publisher.). Yang Jingyi, Zhang Zhen, Zhang Guozhu, Jin Yanling, Wang Juan, Zhang Han, Ke Yulun, Wang Baisen. (Cast).

Set in the early sixties in Taiwan, it is based on the true story of a crime that rocked the nation. A film of both sprawling scope and tender intimacy, this novelistic, patiently observed epic centers on the gradual, inexorable fall of a young teenager.

Blu-ray  - 2016
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Subject
Teenage boys > Taiwan > Drama.
Teenagers > Taiwan > Drama.
Gangs > Taiwan > Drama.
Crime > Taiwan > Drama.
Genre
Blu-ray discs.
Drama.
Crime films.
Romance films.
Coming-of-age films.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Films criminels.
Films d'amour.
Films de passage à l'âge adulte.
Films de fiction.
Video recordings.
  • Physical Description videodisc
    2 videodiscs (236 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out insert.
  • Publisher [New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2016]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Special features: Disc 1: Commentary (features film critic Tony Rayns); Chang Chen (new interview where the actor discusees his breakthrough debut) likely consequence (recording of a play cowritten and directed by Edward Yang in Taipei in 1992). Disc 2: Our time, our story (117 min. 2002 documentary by Hsiao Chu-chen looks at the groundbreaking New Taiwan Cinema movement of the 1980s and '90s, and features interviews with filmmakers Hou Hsiao-hsien, Sylvia Chang, and Tsai Ming-liang, among others). Insert features an essay by critic Godfrey Cheshire and a 1991 director's statement by Yang.
Widescreen (1.85:1) presentation.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1991.
Special features: Disc 1: Commentary (features film critic Tony Rayns); Chang Chen (new interview where the actor discusees his breakthrough debut). Disc 2: Commentary (features film critic Tony Rayns); Likely consequence (recording of a play cowritten and directed by Edward Yang in Taipei in 1992).
GMD: videodisc.
Creation/Production Credits Note: Cinematography, Zhang Huigong, Li Longyu; editor, Chen Bowen; musical director, Zhan Hongda.
Participant or Performer Note: Yang Jingyi, Zhang Zhen, Zhang Guozhu, Jin Yanling, Wang Juan, Zhang Han, Ke Yulun, Wang Baisen.
Language Note:
In Mandarin and Taiwanese, with optional subtitles in English.

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