A Brighter Summer Day is an empathic epic of Taipei in the early 1960s. Four hours long, it is a finely detailed portrait of the families who fled China for Taiwan after the Communist Revolution, unsure if they would ever see their homeland again. It is how Edward Yang grew up, and he felt a responsibility to honor the memory of his friends and family who lived and endured this dislocated life, all under the martial law of the Kuomintang government, who stifled dissent in what became known as the "White Terror". Freedoms were circumscribed and national loyalties scrambled, so in order to establish an identity many children joined street gangs and imbibed Western pop culture, especially Elvis Presley and rock n' roll. The film is a succession of atmospheric reveries punctuated by spasmodic violence, boredom and confusion breeding obscure hatreds.

GENRE: Drama, Romance
MPAA RATING: No Rating
RUN TIME: 3h 56m
RELEASE DATE: December 31, 1969
STARRING: Chen Chang, Lisa Yang, Zhang Guozhu, Elaine Jin, Lin Hongming
DIRECTOR(S): Edward Yang
PRODUCER(S): Yu Weiyan Yang
WRITER(S): Edward Yang, Hung Hung, Lai Mingtang, Alex Yang
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