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Gu ling jie shao nian sha ren shi jian = A brighter summer day
Title:
Gu ling jie shao nian sha ren shi jian = A brighter summer day
ISBN:
9781681431222
Edition:
DVD edition.
Physical Description:
3 videodiscs (236 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 fold-out insert
General Note:
Originally released as a motion picture in 1991.

Special features: Disc 1: Commentary (features film critic Tony Rayns); Chang Chen (new interview where the actor discusees his breakthrough debut). Disc 2: Commentary (features film critic Tony Rayns); Likely consequence (recording of a play cowritten and directed by Edward Yang in Taipei in 1992). Disc 3: Bai ge ji hua = Our time, our story (117 min. 2002 documentary by Hsiao Chu-chen looks at the groundbreaking New Taiwan Cinema movement of the 1980s and '90s, and features interviews with filmmakers Hou Hsiao-hsien, Sylvia Chang, and Tsai Ming-liang, among others). Insert features an essay by critic Godfrey Cheshire and a 1991 director's statement by Yang.
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Container of (work): Bai ge ji hua (Motion picture)

Container of (work): Likely consequence.
Added Title:
Our time, our story.
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.
System Details:
DVD; NTSC, REGION 1; WIDESCREEN (1.85:1) PRESENTATION; DOLBY DIGITAL MONO.
Language Note:
IN MANDARIN AND TAIWANESE, WITH OPTIONAL SUBTITLES IN ENGLISH.
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