A brighter summer day /
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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Format: | Video Blu-ray Disc |
Language: | Chinese Tai English |
Published: |
[United States] :
The Criterion Collection,
[2016]
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Series: | Criterion collection (Blu-ray discs) ;
804. |
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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 |