Gu ling jie shao nian sha ren shi jian = A brighter summer day /

牯嶺街少年殺人事件 = A brighter summer day /

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.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Yang, Dechang, 1947-2007 (Screenwriter), Hong, Hong, 1964- (Screenwriter), Yang, Shunqing, 1965- (Screenwriter), Lai, Mingtang (Screenwriter), Yang, Lisa (Actor), Zhang, Zhen, 1976 October 14- (Actor), Zhang, Guozhu, 1937- (Actor), Jin, Yanling (Actor), Wang, Juan, 1963 August 6- (Actor), Zhang, Han, 1974- (Actor), Ke, Yulun, 1977- (Actor), Wang, Bosen (Actor), Zhang, Huigong (director of photography.), Li, Longyu (director of photography.), Rayns, Tony (Commentator), Hou, Xiaoxian, 1947- (interviewee (expression)), Zhang, Aijia, 1953- (interviewee (expression)), Cai, Mingliang, 1957- (interviewee (expression))
Format:	Video DVD
Language:	Chinese Tai (Other)
Language Notes:	In Mandarin and Taiwanese, with optional subtitles in English.
Published:	[New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2016]
Series:	Criterion collection ; 804.
Subjects:	Teenagers > Taiwan > Drama. Gangs > Taiwan > Drama. Crime > Taiwan > Drama. Nineteen sixties > Drama. Crime. Gangs. Nineteen sixties. Teenagers. Taiwan. Foreign films. Motion pictures, Taiwanese. Crime films. Romance films. Coming-of-age films. Feature films. Fiction films. Documentary films. Drama. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Description
Summary:	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.
Item Description:	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). Insert features an essay by critic Godfrey Cheshire and a 1991 director's statement by Yang.
Physical Description:	3 videodiscs (236 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out insert
Format:	DVD; NTSC, region 1; widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; Dolby digital mono.
Production Credits:	Cinematography, Zhang Huigong, Li Longyu; editor, Chen Bowen; musical director, Zhan Hongda.
ISBN:	9781681431222 168143122X