A brighter summer day= [(DVD) videorecording]: Gu ling jie shaonian sharen shijian / Janus Films ; Kailidoscope ; the Film Foundation World Cinema Project ; directed by Edward Yang.
DVD, NTSC, region 1, widescreen (1.85:1) ; monaural.
Language
Mandarin or Taiwanese dialogue; English subtitles.
Note
Title from container.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1991.
Cast
Chen Chang, Lisa Yang, Kuo-Chu Chang.
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.