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A brighter summer day [videorecording]/ a film by Edward Yang ; produced by Yu Wei-Yen, Jan Hung-Tze, and Edward Yang ; script and dialogue by Edward Yang, Yan Hong-Ya, Alex Yang, Lai Ming-Tang ; directed by Edward Yang.
Format
Video/Projected medium
Language
Chinese
Tai languages
Published/Created
[New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2016]
Description
3 videodiscs (236 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out insert
Availability
Available Online
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Status
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Firestone Library - Video Collection: Circulation Desk
DVD 11255
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Subject(s)
Teenagers
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Taiwan
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Drama
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Gangs
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Taiwan
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Drama
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Crime
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Taiwan
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Drama
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Nineteen sixties
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Drama
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Film distributor
Janus Films
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Publisher
Criterion Collection (Firm)
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Screenwriter
Yang, Dechang, 1947-2007
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Hong, Hong, 1964-
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Yang, Shunqing, 1965-
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Lai, Mingtang, 1911-1984
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Film producer
Yang, Dechang, 1947-2007
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Zhan, Hongzhi
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Yu, Wei Yan
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Film director
Yang, Dechang, 1947-2007
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Xiao, Juzhen, 1972-
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Actor
Yang, Lisa
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Zhang, Zhen, 1976 October 14-
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Zhang, Guozhu, 1937-
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Jin, Elaine, 1954-
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Wang, Juan, 1963 August 6-
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Zhang, Han, 1974-
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Ke, Yulun, 1977-
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Wang, Bosen
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Director of photography
Zhang, Huigong
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Li, Longyu
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Editor of moving image work
Chen, Bowen, 1953-
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Commentator
Rayns, Tony
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Interviewee (expression
Hou, Xiaoxian, 1947-
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Zhang, Aijia, 1953-
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Cai, Mingliang, 1957-
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Writer of supplementary textual content
Cheshire, Godfrey
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Crime films
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Romance films
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Coming-of-age films
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Documentary films
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Feature films
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired
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Getty AAT genre
documentary film
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Series
Criterion collection ; 804.
[More in this series]
The Criterion collection ; 804
Summary note
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.
Notes
Originally released 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). Disc 3: Bai ge ji hua = 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.
Creation/Production credits
Cinematography, Zhang Huigong, Li Longyu; editor, Chen Bowen; musical director, Zhan Hongda.
System details
DVD; NTSC, region 1; widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; Dolby digital mono.
Participant(s)/Performer(s)
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.
Other title(s)
Gu ling jie shao nian sha ren shi jian
Bai ge ji hua (Motion picture)
Likely consequence.
Our time, our story.
ISBN
9781681431222
168143122X
Publisher no.
CC2597DDVD
CC2597D
CC2597D-1
CC2597D-2
CC2597D-3
OCLC
1037269662
Universal Product Code
715515170512
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