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A Brighter Summer Day

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  • Drama
  • Crime
  • Romance

Overview

A boy experiences first love, friendships and injustices growing up in 1960s Taiwan.

Keywords

  • 1960s
  • based on true story
  • tragedy
  • murder
  • high school
  • coming of age
  • teenage boy
  • gang
  • teenage protagonist
  • juvenile delinquent
  • troubled teen
  • first love
  • baseball bat
  • youth gang
  • slow cinema
  • taiwan
  • taipei
  • bitter

Details

Status
Released
Release date
July 27, 1991
Original language
Chinese
Spoken languages
English, Chinese
Countries
Taiwan
Production
Yang & His Gang Filmmakers,Brighter Summer Productions
Cast
Chang Chen,Lisa Yang,Chang Kuo-Chu,Elaine Jin Yan-Ling,Wang Chuan,Chang Han,Chiang Hsiu-Chiung,Stephanie Lai,Tan Chih-Kang,Wang Chi-tsanand 103 more
Director
Edward Yang
Writer
Yen Hung-ya,Mingtang Lai,Alex Yang,Edward Yang
Producer
Jan Hung-Tze,Yu Wei-Yen
Cinematography
Chang Hui-kung,Longyu Zhang
Music
Zhang Hongda
Budget
Not recorded
Revenue
Not recorded
IMDb
tt0101985
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