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A Brighter Summer Day
1991
· Movie
· 237 min
A
MEANRANK
87/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #61
- IMDb #185
- Rotten Tomatoes #45
- Metacritic #60
- Letterboxd #21
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #41
+5 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #297
- Metacritic Audience #50
- Kinopoisk #1691
- AlloCiné #305
- Trakt #388
Every rating
73–100
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Kinopoisk on 73, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 100.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A boy experiences first love, friendships and injustices growing up in 1960s Taiwan.
Details
- Director
- Edward Yang
- Writers
- Alex Yang, Edward Yang, Mingtang Lai, Yen Hung-ya
- Released
- 27 July 1991
- Country
- Taiwan
- Language
- Chinese
- Runtime
- 237 min
- Rated
- NR
- Awards
- 1 win, 1 nomination
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 2 →1 win from 2 nominations across 2 ceremonies
| International Submission to the Academy Awards 1992 | International Submission to the Academy Awards | Taiwan | Nominee |
| 28th Golden Horse Film Awards 1991 | Best Feature Film | Winner |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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2 awards — A Brighter Summer Day
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International Submission to the Academy Awards
1 nomination
| International Submission to the Academy Awards | Taiwan | Nominee |
28th Golden Horse Film Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Feature Film | Winner |