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Movie
language
Mandarin Chinese
duration
237 min
genre
crime
director
Edward Yang
Score
6 / 10

A Brighter Summer Day is a 1991 Taiwanese epic teen 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 Xiao Si’r (Chang Chen), a boy from a middle-class home who veers into juvenile delinquency.

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Zhang Zhen (nickname Si'r), a junior high student in 1959 Taipei, is forced to attend night school after failing a test. This upsets his father, a career government worker, who is aware of and worried about the delinquency rampant among night school students. The next morning, Si'r and his father listen to a radio broadcast of distinguished students.

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    award Golden Horse Award for Best Feature Film
    contentLocation Taiwan
    director Edward Yang
    editor Bowen Chen
    genre crime drama political
    keywords arrest back to school best friend communist party concert hall date expel film force hide kill kiss light bulb media frenzy morning movie studio night school radio broadcast school uniform secret police stable boy survive tainan taipei
    producer Edward Yang Yu Wei-yen
    productionCompany Jane Balfour Films Yang & His Gang Filmmakers
    publisher Cine Qua Non Films