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A Brighter Summer Day is a 1991 Taiwanese epic teen crime drama film directed by Edward Yang, associated with the New Taiwanese Cinema. Its English title is derived from the lyrics of Elvis Presley's 1960 rendition of "Are You Lonesome Tonight?".
Nov 25, 2011 · With Chang Chen, Lisa Yang, Kuo-Chu Chang, Elaine Jin. Based on a true story, primarily on a conflict between two youth gangs, a 14-year-old boy's girlfriend conflicts with the head of one gang for an unclear reason, until finally the conflict comes to a violent climax.
The King of Rock and Roll’s tender ballad “Are You Lonesome Tonight?” becomes a central motif in the Taiwanese epic A Brighter Summer Day, bringing to the surface unresolved feelings about love, national identity, and lost innocence.
A fantastic cinematic and artistic achievement, Edward Yang's A Brighter Summer Day depicts youth, ideals, violence and politics in a melancholic, tender light, culminating in a complex...
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Taiwan, 1960s. After failing a test, innocent boy Xiao Si’r must attend night school. There, two rival gangs constantly clash. Xiao Si’r stays away from the gangs’ actions—until the day he meets Ming and falls in love with her.
Edward Yang’s A Brighter Summer Day is a film where everything and nothing happens all at once. An unrivalled artistic achievement in its magnitude and scope, the film encompasses adolescence, ideals, love, and anguish in a tender portrait of Taiwan's search for a collective identity.
Mar 21, 2016 · This week, we’re proud to release our long-awaited 4K restoration of Edward Yang’s 1991 masterpiece A Brighter Summer Day. Long unavailable on home video in the United States, this incomparable work of Taiwanese cinema is now out on Blu-ray and DVD, restored to the stunning clarity of Yang’s original picture.
Jul 14, 2024 · Among the most praised and sought-after titles in all contemporary film, this singular masterpiece of Taiwanese cinema, directed by Edward Yang is finally available for US audiences. Set in the early sixties in Taiwan, A Brighter Summer Day is based on the true story of a crime that rocked the nation.
A Brighter Summer Day is a 1991 Taiwanese teen crime drama film directed by Edward Yang and is considered by most to be a masterpiece of contemporary cinema.
Mar 5, 2022 · A Brighter Summer Day resembles that feeling of wanting to shout something out in the air--but not being able to, to reserve your profound necessity to cry, a feeling which i'm sure a lot of people will have felt.
