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

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 film of both sprawling scope and tender intimacy, this novelistic, patiently observed epic centers on the gradual, inexorable fall of a young teenager from innocence to juvenile...

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Online Access:	Streaming video (Emerson users only)
Contributors:	Yang, Dechang, 1947-2007 (Screenwriter), Hong, Hong, 1964- (Screenwriter), Yang, Shunqing, 1965- (Screenwriter), Lai, Ming-Tang (Screenwriter), Yang, Lisa (Actor), Zhang, Zhen, 1976 October 14- (Actor), Zhang, Guozhu, 1937- (Actor), Jin, Elaine, 1954- (Actor), Wang, Juan, 1963 August 6- (Actor), Zhang, Han, 1974- (Actor), Ke, Yulun, 1977- (Actor), Wang, Bosen (Actor) (Actor), Zhang, Huigong (director of photography.), Li, Longyu (director of photography.), Zhan, Hongda (composer (expression)), Rayns, Tony (Commentator), Hou, Xiaoxian, 1947- (interviewee (expression)), Zhang, Aijia, 1953- (interviewee (expression)), Cai, Mingliang, 1957- (interviewee (expression))
Corporate Contributor:	Janus Films
Format:	Electronic Video
Language:	Chinese English
Published:	[San Francisco, California, USA] : Janus Films (The Criterion Collection), 1991. Kanopy Streaming, 2019.
Subjects:	Teenage boys > Taiwan > Drama. Teenagers > Taiwan > Drama. Gangs > Taiwan > Drama. Taiwan. Feature films.