Blu-ray
A Confucian confusion = Du li shi dai
Call Number
- BLU-RAY FOREIGN (CEN)
Edition
Blu-ray special edition.
Languages
In Mandarin and Taiwanese, with English subtitles.
Performers
Chen Shiang-chyi, Joyce Ni, Wang Wei-ming, Wang Bosen, Richie Li, Danny Deng, Wang Ye-ming, Chen Yi-wen, Hung Hung, Chen Li-mei, Elaine Jin.
Publication Information
[New York, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2025]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (129 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
"In this pair of sharp, sprawling satires, one of Taiwan's most celebrated filmmakers, Edward Yang, captures the anything-can-happen mood of Taipei at the end of the twentieth century. Made in between his epic dramas A Brighter Summer Day and Yi Yi, A Confucian Confusion and Mahjong find Yang applying a lighter but no less masterly touch to his explorations of human relationships in an increasingly globalized, hypercapitalistic world. These intricately constructed ensemble comedies--one set in a cutthroat corporate milieu, the other in a shady criminal underworld--reveal the absurdity and cynicism at the heart of modern urban life."--Set container.
"Edward Yang's first cinematic foray into comedy may have been a surprising stylistic departure, but in its richly novelistic vision of urban discontent, it is quintessential Yang. This relationship roundelay centers on a coterie of young Taipei professionals whose paths converge at an entertainment company where the boundaries between art and commerce, love and business, have become hopelessly blurred. Evoking the chaos of a city infiltrated by Western chains, logos, and attitudes, A Confucian Confusion is an incisive reflection on the role of traditional values in a materialistic, amoral society."--Container.
Notes
Originally released as a motion picture in 1994.
Disc originally released as part of the two-disc Criterion Collection set A Confucian confusion / Mahjong : two films by Edward Yang.
Special features: New 4K digital restoration, with 5.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack ; excerpts of director Edward Yang speaking after a 1994 screening of A Confucian confusion ; performance of Yang's 1992 play Likely consequence..