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A Brighter Summer Day (1991)

Directed by Edward Yang

Drama | Epic

Overview

A boy experiences first love, friendships and injustices growing up in 1960s Taiwan.

Rated NR | Length 237 minutes

Actors

Chang Chen | Lisa Yang | Chang Kuo-Chu | Elaine Jin | Wang Chuan | Chang Han | Chiang Hsiu-Chiung | Stephanie Lai | Wang Chi-tsan | Lawrence Ko | Tan Chih-Kang | Chang Ming-Hsin | Jung Chun-Lung | Hui-Kuo Chou | Chi-Chung Liu | Ching-Hsiang Ho | Chang-Ta Tsai | Tsung-Ming Lee | Hsiao-Tsui Tang | Ming-Ying Chiang | Hung-Ming Lin | Wang Bosen | Hung-Yu Chen | Tien-Hsiang Yang | Hsiao-Wei Liao | Cheng-Ching Lin | Ming-Hsun Lee | Tai-song Chen | Ming-Che Lee | Yi-Cheng Chung | Chia-Hsien Ho | Kang-Nien Cheng | Hsien-Liang Hsu | Chih-Chien Tang | Chien-Hung Tseng | Yiwen Cao | Martin Liu | Yi-Chun Chang | Yuan Ling | Alex Yang | Ni Shu-Chun | Weiming Wang | Ye-Ming Wang | Chien-Hsiung Cheng | Chui De-Hai | Pei-Min Shih | Liang-Tso Liu | Hang Shen | Yang-Yeh Fu | Lee Ching-Foo | Yi-Wen Chen | Jen-Chieh Lin | Cheng Yuan-Cheng | Yi-Chin Tsai | Guoqiang Feng | Yu-Lung Yin | Hsu Ming | Chin Tsai | Cho Ming | Wen-Yen Chang | Lien-Lien Hsiao | Emily Y. Chang | Chin Shih-Chieh | Lih-Ching Lin | Tang Ru-Yun | Chiu-Yun Lu | Johnny Chung-Yi Tuan | Hsiao Chih-wen | Liang-Yueh Chen | Li-Hua Chen | Ko-Chung Chang | Te-Ming Lu | Hsiao Ai | Hsi-Sheng Chen | Shu-Chuan Huang | Hung-Shen Shen | Meng Chi-Liang | Hung Hung | Ting-Ni Ma | Hu Hsiang-Ping | Pao-Kuei Sun | Vicky Chiang | Ming-Yang Shih | Li-Mei Chen | Chen Shiang-Chyi | Lai Te-Nan | Ju-Ping Lin | Danny Deng | Ming-Yu Shih | Heng-Cheng Lin | Yi-Hua Shih | Kuo-Chih Shu | Chang-Ju Kuo | Miao-hui Kao | Chang-Hao Liu | Hsieh Chung-Mou | Chung-Chang Tuan | Te-chien Hou | Lang Tsu-Yun | Tang Shiang-Chu | Lai-Fu Chen | Min-Nen Lee | Yu Wei-Yen | Dao Nan Wang | Chuang Wu | Le-Chin Wu | Tzu-Chiang Lee | Liping Yang | Katherine Hui-ling Chou | Yuen Ming-Hung | Bo Yuan

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

This is 4 hours long. Epic and a masterpiece of filmmaking. Certainly one of the best examples of Taiwan New Cinema. Can’t imagine watching this in theaters but it would be amazing. Pretty wild to watch this after The Soong Sisters (basically the timeline of this film takes off not long after the core story of The Soong Sisters ends - about a decade later). Also interesting that Elaine Jin portrays the mother in both films!

I might create a list of Taiwan New Cinema films to track them. This has been a wonderful discovery this year.

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