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A Brighter Summer Day (1991)

Name: A Brighter Summer Day
Director: Edward Yang
Genre: drama film
Rating: 8.2

A Brighter Summer Day is a 1991 Taiwanese epic 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 '60s, the film centers on Hsiao Si’r, a boy from a middle-class home who veers into juvenile delinquency.

Directed by Edward Yang

Behind the scenes

Restoration Spotlight: A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY — CRITERION · 2 min
Chen Chang on A Brighter Summer Day — lachambreverte · 19 min

Elsewhere

More by Edward Yang

In Our Time — 1982
That Day, on the Beach — 1983
Taipei Story — 1984
The Terrorizers — 1986
A Confucian Confusion — 1994
Mahjong — 1996
Yi Yi — 2000

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