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牯嶺街少年殺人事件 = A brighter summer day /

Gu ling jie shao nian sha ren shi jian = A brighter summer day / Yang Dechang dian ying zhi zuo ; Zhan Hongzhi, Yu Weiyan, Yang Dechang ; bian ju, Yang Dechang, Yan Hongya, Yang Shunqing, Lai Mingtang ; dao yan, Yang Dechang = 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.

楊德昌, 詹宏志, 余爲彥, 鴻鴻, 楊順清, 賴銘棠, 张震, 張國柱, 金燕玲, 王娟, 張翰, 柯宇綸, 王伯森, 張惠恭, 李龍禹, 陳博文, 蕭菊貞, 侯孝賢, 张艾嘉, 蔡明亮, Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: CC2597DDVD | The Criterion CollectionCC2597D | The Criterion Collection | (container)CC2597D-1 | The Criterion Collection | (disc 1)CC2597D-2 | The Criterion Collection | (disc 2)CC2597D-3 | The Criterion Collection | (disc 3)Language: Chinese, Tai (Other) Original language: Chinese Subtitle language: English Series: Criterion collection ; 804.Publisher: [New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2016]Edition: DVD editionDescription: 3 videodiscs (236 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 fold-out insertContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 9781681431222
  • 168143122X
Other title:
  • Brighter summer day
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Production credits:
  • Cinematography, Zhang Huigong, Li Longyu ; editor, Chen Bowen ; musical director, Zhan Hongda.
Cast: Yang Jingyi, Zhang Zhen, Zhang Guozhu, Jin Yanling, Wang Juan, Zhang Han, Ke Yulun, Wang Baisen.Summary: Set in the early sixties in Taiwan, this film 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.
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Adult DVD Adult DVD Main Library DVD WORLD Brighter Available 33111009507910
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

DVD; NTSC, region 1; widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; Dolby digital mono.

In Mandarin and Taiwanese with optional subtitles in English.

880-02 Yang Jingyi, Zhang Zhen, Zhang Guozhu, Jin Yanling, Wang Juan, Zhang Han, Ke Yulun, Wang Baisen.

880-03 Cinematography, Zhang Huigong, Li Longyu ; editor, Chen Bowen ; musical director, Zhan Hongda.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1991.

Set in the early sixties in Taiwan, this film 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.

880-04 Special features: Disc 1: Commentary (features film critic Tony Rayns) ; Chang Chen (new interview where the actor discusses 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). Insert features an essay by critic Godfrey Cheshire and a 1991 director's statement by Yang.

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