A brighter summer day / written by Yan Hong-Ya, Lai Ming-Tang, Edward Yang, Alex Yang ; directed by Edward Yang.
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.
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| Alternate Title: | Gu ling jie shao nian sha ren shi jian. |
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| Format: | Video Blu-ray Disc |
| Language: | Chinese Tai English |
| Published: | [United States] : The Criterion Collection, [2016] |
| Series: | Criterion collection ;
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Item Description: | Title from sell sheet. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1991. Special features: audio commentary featuring critic Tony Rayns; new interview with actor Chen Chang; Our time, our story, a 113-minute documentary from 2002 about the New Taiwan Cinema movement, featuring interviews with Yang and filmmakers Hou Hsiao-hsien and Tsai Ming-liang, among others; videotaped performance of director Edward Yang's 1992 play Likely consequence; an essay by critic Godfrey Cheshire and a 1991 director's statement by Yang. |
| Physical Description: | 2 videodiscs (236 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Format: | Blu-ray; widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; mono.; requires Blu-ray player. |
| Production Credits: | Cinematography, Chang Hui-Kung, Li Long-Yu ; editor, Bowen Chen. |
| ISBN: | 9781681431215 1681431211 |
| FOLIO Link: | View instance in FOLIO |