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Title:
A brighter summer day [DVD video]
Title (Alt graphic):
A brighter summer day [DVD video]
Publication Date:
2016
Publication Information:
[New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2016]
Physical Description:
3 videodiscs (236 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN:
9781681431222
Abstract:
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.
General Note:
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).
Performers:
Yang Jingyi, Zhang Zhen, Zhang Guozhu, Jin Yanling, Wang Juan, Zhang Han, Ke Yulun, Wang Baisen.
Technical Details:
DVD; NTSC, region 1; widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; Dolby digital mono.
Language:
Chinese
Additional Language:
In Mandarin and Taiwanese, with optional subtitles in English.
Audience:
No rating available.
