A Brighter Summer Day (Traditional Chinese: 牯嶺街少年殺人事件) is a nearly four-hour long, 1991 Taiwanese romantic drama film directed by Taiwanese director Edward Yang. The film is an extraordinarily large project for a Chinese-language film, not only for its duration of almost four hours, but also for its involvement of more than 100 amateur actors in different roles.
Based on a real incident that took place in the 1960s, where a teenager murders his g...
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A Brighter Summer Day (Traditional Chinese: 牯嶺街少年殺人事件) is a nearly four-hour long, 1991 Taiwanese romantic drama film directed by Taiwanese director Edward Yang. The film is an extraordinarily large project for a Chinese-language film, not only for its duration of almost four hours, but also for its involvement of more than 100 amateur actors in different roles.
Based on a real incident that took place in the 1960s, where a teenager murders his girlfriend at Guling Street (牯嶺街), Taipei for unknown reasons. The film places this murder incident in the context of the obscure political environment in Taiwan at that time. Political background of the film is introduced in intertitles as:
Even though the film is extraordinarily long in duration, it received much critical acclaim and now stands as one of the most successful and important Chinese-language films. The film was awarded several wins in Asia Pacific Film Festival, Kinema Junpo Awards and Tokyo International Film Festival.
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