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Title: A Brighter Summer Day (The Criterion Collection)
Condition: New
Description: Among the most praised and sought-after titles in all contemporary film, this singular masterpiece of Taiwanese cinema, directed by Edward Yang (Yi Yi), 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 (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon s 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.

BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- New audio commentary featuring critic Tony Rayns
- New interview with actor Chen Chang
- Our Time, Our Story, a 117-minute documentary from 2002 about the New Taiwan Cinema movement, featuring interviews with Yang and filmmakers Hou Hsiao-hsien and Tsai Ming-liang, among others
- Videotaped performance of director Edward Yang s 1992 play Likely Consequence
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by critic Godfrey Cheshire and a 1991 director s statement by Yang
Format: Blu-ray
Director: Edward Yang
Actor: Chang Chen, Lisa Yang
Genre: Drama
Rating: MPAA Not Rated
No Of Discs: 2
Run Time: 3 hours and 57 minutes
Country/Region of Manufacture: USA
Studio: Criterion Collection (Direct)
Language: Mandarin Chinese, Taiwanese Chinese
Subtitle Language: English
EAN: 0715515170413
Region Code: Blu-ray: A (Americas, Southeast Asia...)

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