DVD & Blu-ray: A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY (1991) - Criterion Collection

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Product Description: 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.

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Film Details

• Starring: Chen Chang, Lisa Yang, Kuo-Chu Chang, Elaine Jin
  
  
• Director: Edward Yang
  
  
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
  
  
• Running Time: 237 min
  
  
• Studio: Criterion
  
  
• Rating: Not Rated
  
  

DVD / Blu-Ray Details

• Available Editions (click links to order):
• DVD - The Criterion Collection ($22.99) - 3 Discs
• Blu-ray - The Criterion Collection ($27.99) - 2 Discs
  
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
  
  
• Release Date: March 22, 2016
  
  
• Language: Mandarin Chinese
  
  



• Audio Formats:
  • Blu-Ray: LPCM Mono
  • DVD: Mono
    
• Subtitles: English
  
  
• Special Features:
• New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• New audio commentary featuring critic Tony Rayns
• New interview with actor Chen Chang
• Our Time, Our Story, a 113-minute documentary from 2002 about the New Taiwan Cinema movement, featuring interviews with Yang and filmmakers Hou Hsiao-hsien, Sylvia Chang, 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

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