Dire Straits

Dire Straits

1 Episode

Qiu Yang’s Cannes-award-winning short is inspired by a spate of disappearances in China, and Edward Yang’s sprawling epic draws on a shocking crime that took place in Taiwan.

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Dire Straits
  • A Brighter Summer Day

    Episode 1

    Directed by Edward Yang • 1991 • Taiwan
    Starring Chang Chen, Lisa Yang

    Among the most praised and sought-after titles in all contemporary film, this singular masterpiece of Taiwanese cinema, directed by Edward Yang, finally comes to home video in the United States. Set in the early sixties in...