A Brighter Summer Day
- 1991
- 3h 57min
- Not Rated
Original title: Guling jie shaonian sharen shijian
Crime, Drama, Romance
- Edward Yang
- Edward Yang, Edward Yang, Alex Yang, Alex Yang, Mingtang Lai, Mingtang Lai, Hung Hung, Hung Hung
- Yang & His Gang Filmmakers
- Hung-Tze Jan
- Chang Chen, Lisa Yang, Kuo-Chu Chang, Elaine Jin, Chuan Wang, Han Chang, Hsiu-Chiung Chiang, Stephanie Lai, Chi-tsan Wang, Lawrence Ko
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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 1960s, the film centers on Hsiao Si’r (Chang Chen), a boy from a middle-class home who veers into juvenile delinquency.
The film was selected as the Taiwanese entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 64th Academy Awards but was not nominated.
Since its release, A Brighter Summer Day has been praised as one of Yang's best works, one of the best films of the 1990s, and one of the greatest films of all time. It ranked 78th in the 2022 Sight & Sound Greatest Films of All Time poll, one of four Chinese-language films to be included, and above Yang's Yi Yi.