| A Brighter Summer Day | |
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| Traditional Chinese | 牯嶺街少年殺人事件 |
| Simplified Chinese | 牯岭街少年杀人事件 |
| Literal meaning | Youth Homicide Incident on Guling Street |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Gǔlǐng jiē shàonián shārén shìjiàn |
| Directed by | Edward Yang |
| Screenplay by | Hung Hung Lai Ming-tang Edward Yang Alex Yang Yan Hong-ya |
| Produced by | Yu Wei-yen Chan Hung-tze Edward Yang |
| Starring | Chang Chen Lisa Yang Chang Kuo-Chu Elaine Jin Wang Chuan Chang Han |
| Cinematography | Chang Hui-kung Li Long-yu |
| Edited by | Bowen Chen |
Production companies | Yang & His Gang Filmmakers Jane Balfour Films |
| Distributed by | Cine Qua Non Films |
Release date |
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Running time | 237 minutes |
| Country | Taiwan |
| Languages | Mandarin Shanghainese Taiwanese |
A Brighter Summer Day is a 1991 Taiwanese epic[1] crime drama film directed by Edward Yang, associated with the New Taiwanese Cinema. Its English title is derived from the lyrics of Elvis Presley's 1960 rendition of "Are You Lonesome Tonight?". Set in the late 1950s and early 1960s, the film centers on Hsiao Si’r (Chang Chen), a boy from a middle-class home who veers into juvenile delinquency.
The film was selected as the Taiwanese entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 64th Academy Awards but was not nominated.[2]
Since its release, A Brighter Summer Day has been praised as one of Yang's best works, one of the best films of the 1990s, and one of the greatest films of all time. It ranked 78th in the 2022 Sight & Sound Greatest Films of All Time poll, one of four Chinese-language films to be included, and above Yang's Yi Yi.[3]
- ^ "A Brighter Summer Day". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved September 5, 2020.
- ^ Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
- ^ "The Greatest Films of All Time".