--- title: 'A Brighter Summer Day (1991)' type: 'film' director: 'Edward Yang' released: '1991-07-27' runtime_minutes: 237 genres: - 'Drama' countries: - 'Taiwan' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/a-brighter-summer-day-1991' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101985/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # A Brighter Summer Day (1991) 1991 · 237 min · Drama · Taiwan Original title: 牯嶺街少年殺人事件 ## Synopsis 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 '60s, the film centers on Hsiao Si’r, a boy from a middle-class home who veers into juvenile delinquency. ## Credits - **Director:** [Edward Yang](https://cinepixo.com/people/edward-yang) - **Screenplay:** [Edward Yang](https://cinepixo.com/people/edward-yang) ## Cast - [Lee Lung-yue](https://cinepixo.com/people/lee-lung-yue) - [Hou Dejian](https://cinepixo.com/people/hou-dejian) - [Hung Hung](https://cinepixo.com/people/hung-hung) - [Chen Yi Wen](https://cinepixo.com/people/chen-yi-wen) - [Alex Yang](https://cinepixo.com/people/alex-yang) - [Tsai Chin](https://cinepixo.com/people/tsai-chin-2) - [Joyce Ni](https://cinepixo.com/people/joyce-ni) - [Lin Ren-Jie](https://cinepixo.com/people/lin-ren-jie) - [Tang Shiang-Chu](https://cinepixo.com/people/tang-shiang-chu) - [Chen Shiang-chyi](https://cinepixo.com/people/chen-shiang-chyi) - [Ai Hsiao](https://cinepixo.com/people/ai-hsiao) - [Johnny Tuan Chung-Yi](https://cinepixo.com/people/johnny-tuan-chung-yi) - [Chiang Hsiu-Chiung](https://cinepixo.com/people/chiang-hsiu-chiung) - [Chen Tiqiang](https://cinepixo.com/people/chen-tiqiang) - [Chin Shih-Chieh](https://cinepixo.com/people/chin-shih-chieh) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/a-brighter-summer-day-1991 Film facts: Wikidata (Q710745); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.