A brighter summer day / Janus Films ; 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.

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.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Janus Films (Film distributor)
Criterion Collection (Firm) (Publisher)
Other Authors: Yang, Dechang, 1947-2007 (Screenwriter, Film producer, Film director)
Zhan, Hongzhi (Film producer)
Yu, Weiyan (Film producer)
Hong, Hong, 1964- (Screenwriter)
Yang, Shunqing, 1965- (Screenwriter)
Lai, Mingtang (Screenwriter)
Yang, Lisa (Actor)
Zhang, Zhen, 1976 October 14- (Actor)
Zhang, Guozhu, 1937- (Actor)
Jin, Elaine, 1954- (Actor)
Wang, Juan, 1963 August 6- (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)
Language:Chinese
Tai (Other)
English
Language of the Original:
Chinese
Language and/or Writing System:
In Mandarin and Taiwanese, with optional subtitles in English.
Published: [New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2016]
Series:Criterion collection ; 804.
Subjects:
Teenagers > Taiwan > Drama.
Gangs > Taiwan > Drama.
Crime > Taiwan > Drama.
Nineteen sixties > Drama.
Crime films.
Romance films.
Coming-of-age films.
Documentary films.
Feature films.
Feature films > Taiwan.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Genre:
Drama.
Crime films.
Romance films.
Coming-of-age films.
Documentary films.
Feature films.
Feature films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Physical Description:3 videodiscs (236 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out leaflet.
Format: Video DVD

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