A Brighter Summer Day VCD

Elaine Kam (Actor) | Cheung Kwok Chu (Actor) | Chang Chen | Yang De Chang (Director)

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From visionary Taiwanese directory Edward Yang comes A Brighter Summer Day, an epic four-hour film set in 1960s Taiwan. Using a cast of nonactors and natural, real locations, Yang brings what looks like a tale of rival street gangs to the screen. But his focus is really one young man, who faces his own individual struggles as the people of Taiwan come to grips with their personal identity. The boy's generation is the first born to Taiwan after the massive immigration of Nationalist Chinese from the Mainland following the rise of Communism. These new Taiwanese struggle to define their own identity, and find inspiration in sources from Chinese swordplay novels, to Russian literature, to Japanese weaponry, to American pop culture and music.

The world of A Brighter Summer Day is opposed to its hopeful title, and reflects one of uncertainty, where the future has never seemed quite so cloudy or unpredictable. Yang draws upon the trials of his own childhood - the daily dangers of gang violence, his own rural background, and the true-life murder of a thirteen year-old girl by a fourteen year-old boy - to weave a complex tapestry of the anxieties and fears facing a nation uprooted by change and exile. A stunning, mesmerizing film which exemplifies the notion of film as art, A Brighter Summer Day is one of the definitive films of modern Taiwanese cinema.

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	English 繁體中文简体中文日本語 한국어
Product Title:	A Brighter Summer Day 牯嶺街少年殺人事件牯岭街少年杀人事件 [牛古]嶺街少年殺人事件 A Brighter Summer Day
Artist Name(s):	Elaine Kam (Actor) \| Cheung Kwok Chu (Actor) \| Chang Chen 金燕玲 (Actor) \| 張國柱 (Actor) \| 張震金燕玲 (Actor) \| 张国柱 (Actor) \| 张震金燕玲（イレイン・カム） (Actor) \| 張國柱（チョン・クォックチュウ） (Actor) \| 張震（チャン・チェン） Elaine Kam (Actor) \| Cheung Kwok Chu (Actor) \| Chang Chen
Director:	Yang De Chang 楊德昌杨德昌楊徳昌（エドワード・ヤン） Yang De Chang
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Release Date:	2001-07-04
Language:	Mandarin
Subtitles:	English, Traditional Chinese
Country of Origin:	Hong Kong
Disc Format(s):	VCD
Rating:	II
Publisher:	Wide Sight (HK)
Package Weight:	190 (g)
Shipment Unit:	1 What is it?
YesAsia Catalog No.:	1000023023

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主演：張震╱張國柱╱金燕玲
Cast: Zhang Zhen/ Cheung Kwok Chu/ Elaine Kam
導演：楊德昌
Director: Yang De Chang

　　榮獲九二年度東京國際電影節評審團大獎及國際影評人大獎！！

　　一個轟動一時的真人真事個案。主角是個年僅十六歲的中學生，他伏擊一位女同學，最後將她刺死。表面上是個少年人因愛不遂而衝動殺人的事件。背後卻是一首青春悲歌，透視出時代的變化，交織出每個人不同的命運。

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