Blu-ray
Mahjong = Ma jiang
Call Number
- BLU-RAY FOREIGN (CEN)
Edition
Blu-ray special edition.
Languages
In Mandarin, Taiwanese and English, with English subtitles.
Performers
Tang Tsung-sheng, Chang Chen, Virginie Ledoyen, Lawrence Ko, Wang Chi-tsan, Nick Erickson, Chen Shin-hui, Diana Dupuis, Carrie Ng, Chang Kuo-chu, Wang Bosen, Wu Nien-jen, Elaine Jin.
Publication Information
[New York, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2025]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (120 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 follow-up to A Confucian Confusion is another dizzying comedy set in a globalized Taipei, but with a darker, more caustic edge. Amid a rapidly changing cityscape, the lives of a disparate group of swindlers, hustlers, gangsters, and expats collide, with a naive French teenager and a sensitive young local who tries to protect her caught dangerously in the middle. By turns brutal, shocking, tender, and bitingly funny, Mahjong is a dazzling vision of a multicultural Taipei where nearly every relationship has a price and newfound prosperity comes at the expense of the human soul."--Container.
Notes
Originally released as a motion picture in 1996.
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 ; new interview with editor Chen Po-wen ; new conversation between Chinese-cultural-studies scholar Michael Berry and film critic Justin Chang.