BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY, A [BLU-RAY]

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• Release Year: 1991
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Foreign, Romance
• Plot: Among the most praised and sought-after titles in all contemporary film, this singular masterpiece of Taiwanese cinema, directed by Edward Yang, finally comes to home video in the United States. 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 (Chen Chang, in his first role) from innocence to juvenile delinquency, and is set against a simmering backdrop of restless youth, rock and roll, and political turmoil.
• Cast: Chen Chang, Lisa Yang, Kuo-Chu Chang, Elaine Jin, Chuan Wang, Han Chang, Hsiu-Chiung Chiang, Stephanie Lai, Chi-tsan Wang, Lawrence Ko, Chih-Kang Tan, Ming-Hsin Chang, Chun-Lung Jung, Hui-Kuo Chou, Ching-Chi Liu, Ching-Hsiang Ho, Chang-Ta Tsai, Tsung-Ming Lee, Hsiao-Tsui Tang, Ming-Ying Chiang, Hung-Ming Lin, Bosen Wang, Hung-Yu Chen, Tien-Hsiang Yang, Hsiao-Wei Liao, Cheng-Ching Lin, Ming-Hsun Lee, Tai-song Chen, Ming-Che Lee, Yu-Cheng Lin, Yi-Cheng Chung, Chia-Hsien Ho, Kang-Nien Cheng, Hsien-Liang Hsu, Chih-Chien Tang, Chien-Hung Tseng, Yiwen Cao, Martin Liu, Yi-Chun Chang, Yuan Ling, Alex Yang, Shu-Chun Ni, Wei-Ming Wang, Chien-Hsiung Cheng, Ye-Ming Wang, De-Hai Chu, Pei-Min Shih, Liang-tso Liu, Shen Hang, Yang-Yeh Fu, Ching Fu Li, Yi-wen Chen, Jen-Chieh Lin, Yuen-Cheng Cheng, Yi-Chin Tsai, Guoqiang Feng, Yu-Lung Yin, Ming Hsu, Chin Tsai, Ming Cho, Wen-Yen Chang, Lien-Lien Hsiao, Emily Y. Chang, Shih-Chieh King, Lih-Ching Lin, Ru-Yun Tang, Chiu-Yun Lu, Johnny Chung-Yi Tuan, Chin Ling Tsao, Chih-wen Hsiao, Liang-Yue Chen, Li-Hua Chen, Ko-Chung Chang, Te-Ming Lu, Ai Hsiao, Hsi-Sheng Chen, Shu-Chuan Huang, Hung-Shen Shen, Chi-Liang Meng, Hung Hung, Ting-Ni Ma, Hsiang-ping Hu, Pao-Kuei Sun, Vicky Chiang, Ming-Yang Shih, Li-Mei Chen, Shiang-chyi Chen, Te-nan Lai, Ju-Ping Lin, Danny Deng, Ming-Yu Shih, Heng-Cheng Lin, Yi-Hua Shih, Kuo-Chih Shu, Chang-Ju Kuo, Miao-hui Kao, Chang-Hao Liu, Hung-chun Hsieh, Chung-Chang Tuan, Te-Chien Hou, Tsu-Jun Lang, Shiang-Chu Tang, Lai-Fu Chen, Min-Nen Lee, Wei-yen Yu, Dao-Nan Wang, Chuang Wu, Le-Chin Wu, Tzu-Chiang Lee, Liping Yang, Katherine Hui-ling Chou, Ning-Yuen Hu, Bo Yuan, Edward Yang, Mingtang Lai
• Director: Edward Yang
• Runtime: 3:56
• Company: Kailidoscope..., The Film Foundation, Janus Films, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie