A Brighter Summer Day - 1991 Movie Rewind - Episode #65

This week, Nikki and Jon discuss a multi-faceted story that centers around a young teen boy that is dealing with his family, gang-life and school in Taiwan during the 1960s; Nikki also delves a little bit more into the true story this movie is based on as well as music and TV released the same time as this movie.

SUMMARY - A Brighter Summer Day follows 14 year-old Xiao Si’r (played by Chang Chen) as he navigates all aspects of life during the summer of 1960. He is attending night school which is full of young gang members and finds himself getting heavily involved with them. Throughout the summer he deals with various issues with his family, school life, friends, girls and rival gangs.

Screenplay by Hung Hung, Mingtang Lai, Alex Yang and Edward Yang; Directed by Edward Yang, and released in Taiwan on July 27, 1991.

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