A Brighter Summer Day

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A Brighter Summer Day (牯嶺街少年殺人事件) is a 4-hour film directed by Taiwanese director Edward Yang. The film is an extraordinarily large project for Chinese-language not only for its duration for 4 hours, but also involve more than 100 amateur actors for different roles.

Based on a real story happened in 1960s, a teenager murders his girlfriend at Guling Street(牯嶺街), Taipei for unknown reasons. The film parellels this murder incident with the obscure political environment in Taiwan at that time. Even though the film lasts extraordinarily long in duration, it gets high critical reception and becomes one of the most successful and important Chinese-language film. The film gets different awards in Asis-Pacific Film Festival, Kinema Junpo Awards and Tokyo International Film Festival.

Zhang Guozhu, Zhang Guozhu's son Chang Chen(which is his film debut) and Elaine Jin are casted in A Brighter Summer Day .

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