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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.

Contributors:

Yang, Dechang, 1947-2007 , screenwriter, film producer, film director

Zhan, Hongzhi , film producer

Yu, Wei Yan , film producer

Hong, Hong, 1964- , screenwriter

Yang, Shunqing, 1965- , screenwriter

Lai, Mingtang , screenwriter

Yang, Lisa , actor

Zhang, Zhen, 1976 October 14- , actor

Zhang, Guozhu, 1937- , actor

Jin, Elaine, 1954- , actor

Wang, Juan, 1963 August 6- , actor

Zhang, Han, 1974- , actor

Ke, Yulun, 1977- , actor

Wang, Bosen , actor

Zhang, Huigong , director of photography

Li, Longyu , director of photography

Chen, Bowen, 1953- , editor of moving image work

Rayns, Tony , commentator

Xiao, Juzhen, 1972- , film director

Hou, Xiaoxian, 1947- , interviewee

Zhang, Aijia, 1953- , interviewee

Cai, Mingliang, 1957- , interviewee

Cheshire, Godfrey , writer of supplementary textual content

Janus Films , film distributor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/fds

Criterion Collection (Firm) , publisher, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pbl

Languages:

Chinese
Tai (Other)
English

Language Notes:

In Mandarin and Taiwanese, with optional subtitles in English.

Included Works:

Bai ge ji hua (Motion picture)

Likely consequence

Our time, our story

Related Series:

Criterion collection; [volume] 804

Alternate Titles:

Title translation: A brighter summer day
Title translation: Janus Films

Subjects:

Teenagers — Taiwan — Drama

Gangs — Taiwan — Drama

Crime — Taiwan — Drama

Nineteen sixties — Drama

Teenagers

Gangs

Crime

Nineteen sixties

Taiwan

Genres:

Motion pictures

Crime films

Romance films

Coming-of-age films

Documentary films

Feature films

Feature films — Taiwan

Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Drama

System Details:

DVD; NTSC, region 1; widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; Dolby digital mono.

Performers:

Cast: Yang Jingyi, Zhang Zhen, Zhang Guozhu, Jin Yanling, Wang Juan, Zhang Han, Ke Yulun, Wang Baisen.

Production Credits:

Cinematography, Zhang Huigong, Li Longyu; editor, Chen Bowen; musical director, Zhan Hongda.

General Notes:

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.

Physical Description:

3 videodiscs (236 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out insert.

Physical Characteristics:

4 3/4 in.

Audio Characteristics:

digital; optical; mono; Dolby

Film Characteristics:

1.78:1; wide screen

Video Characteristics:

NTSC

Digital Characteristics:

video file; DVD video; region 1

Call Numbers:

BRI 1991 DVD

ISBNs:

9781681431222
168143122X

Other Standard Numbers:

Universal Product Code: 715515170512
Publisher Number, The Criterion Collection: CC2597DDVD
Publisher Number, The Criterion Collection: CC2597D (container)
Publisher Number, The Criterion Collection: CC2597D-1 (disc 1)
Publisher Number, The Criterion Collection: CC2597D-2 (disc 2)
Publisher Number, The Criterion Collection: CC2597D-3 (disc 3)

OCLC Numbers:

937408401