A brighter summer day = Gu ling jie shaonian sharen shijian
Call Number
- DVD FOREIGN (CEN)
Languages
In Mandarin and Taiwanese, with English subtitles.
Performers
Chen Chang, Lisa Yang, Chang Kuo-Chu, Elaine Jin.
Publication Information
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2016]
Physical Description
3 videodiscs (236 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (unpaged: color illustrations ; 19 cm)
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
Set in the early 1960s, this film is based on the true story of a crime that rocked Taiwan. A film of both sprawling scope and tender intimacy, this novelistic, patiently observed epic centers on the gradual, inexorable fall of a young teenager from innocence to delinquency, and is set against a simmering backdrop of restless youth, rock and roll, and political turmoil.
Notes
Originally released as a motion picture in 1991.
Special features: New 4K digital restoration ; new audio commentary featuring critic Tony Rayns ; new interview with actor Chang Chen ; Our time, our story, a 113-minute documentary from 2002 about the New Taiwan Cinema movement, featuring interviews with filmmakers Hou Hsiao-hsien, Sylvia Chang, and Tsai Ming-liang, among others ; videotaped 1992 performance of Yang's play Likely consequence ; new English subtitle translation.
Contents
- A brighter summer day, part one
- A brighter summer day, part two
- Our time, our story.