<p><strong>"This film is so uncommonly good that Yang's other very impressive works pale beside it." - <em>Chicago Reader</em></strong></p>

<p style="text-align: left;">Often spoken of in terms of ‘genius' and even ‘one of the greatest films ever made', <em>A Brighter Summer Day</em> recounts events surrounding a shocking juvenile homicide in Taiwan in 1960, when a 13-year-old girl was stabbed to death by a former classmate. Incorporating no less than 100 speaking parts and almost as many locations, this sprawling yet methodically constructed film deftly captures the social upheaval of 60s Taiwan.</p>

<p style="text-align: left;">"<em>A Brighter Summer Day</em> was cut in Edward's study using six traditional editing machines... I saw two white boards completely scribbled over with characters of the film. I had never seen a director so meticulous. I was overwhelmed."<br />- editor Chen Po-Wen<br />