A brighter summer day [DVD video]

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.

Subject Term:

Teenagers -- Taiwan -- Drama.

Gangs -- Taiwan -- Drama.

Crime -- Taiwan -- Drama.

Nineteen sixties -- Drama.

Genre:

Crime films.

Romance films.