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Tag Archives: Edward Yang
In Our Time / Guang yin de gu shi (1982) Yi Chang, I-Chen Ko, Te-chen Tao, Edward Yang, Emily Y. Chang, Sylvia Chang, Chi Chen, Sheng-wen Lan
Four short films from four different directors, spanning from the 1950s to the 1980s. Read More »
A Confucian Confusion / Du li shi dai (1994) Edward Yang, Li-Mei Chen, Shiang-chyi Chen, Yi-wen Chen
After firing a colleague, the head of a PR company begins to question her lifestyle and values. Read More »
The Terrorizers / Kong bu fen zi (1986) Edward Yang, Cora Miao, Li-Chun Lee, Shih-Chieh King
A metaphysical mystery about the lives of three couples in Taipei that continually intersect over a span of several weeks. Read More »
Taipei Story / Qing mei zhu ma (1985) Edward Yang, Chin Tsai, Hsiao-Hsien Hou, I-Chen Ko
Lung, a former member of the national Little League team and now operator of an old-style fabric business Read More »
That Day on the Beach (1983) Edward Yang, Sylvia Chang, Ming Hsu, Terry Hu, Drama
Two friends who have not seen each other for two years return. One is a powerful concert pianist back from a European tour and another has only started a brand new small business. Read More »
A Brighter Summer Day / Gu ling jie shao nian sha ren shi jian (1991) Edward Yang, Chen Chang, Lisa Yang, Kuo-Chu Chang, Crime, Drama, Romance
Among the most praised and sought-after titles in all contemporary film, this singular masterpiece of Taiwanese cinema, directed by Edward Yang, finally comes to home video in the United States. Set in the early sixties in Taiwan, A Brighter Summer Day is based on the true story of a crime that rocked the nation. A film of both sprawling scope and tender intimacy, this novelistic, patiently observed epic centers on the gradual, inexorable fall of a young teenager (Chen Chang, in his first role) from innocence to juvenile delinquency, and is set against a simmering backdrop of restless youth, rock and roll, and political turmoil.
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