Directed by Edward Yang, A Brighter Summer Day is a singular masterpiece of Taiwanese cinema, among the most praised and sought-after titles in all contemporary film. Set in the early 60s in Taiwan, A Brighter Summer Day is based on the true story of a crime that shocked 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) from innocence to juvenile delinquency, and is set against a simmering backdrop of restless youth, rock and roll, and political turmoil.
