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

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  • Disc 1-disc 3

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    Subject(s)
    Film distributor
    Publisher
    Screenwriter
    Film producer
    Film director
    Actor
    Director of photography
    Editor of moving image work
    Commentator
    Interviewee (expression
    Writer of supplementary textual content
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    Series
    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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