Edward Yang – A Brighter Summer Day & Yi Yi
Lisa Yang and Chang Chen
A Brighter Summer Day a 4 hours film directed by Edward Yang
Edward Yang – 1947-2007
b. November 6, 1947, Shanghai, China
d. June 29, 2007, Beverley Hills, USA
Edward Yang – a profile from Senses of Cinema.
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Yi Yi on youtube with Portugese subtitles. Here Issey Ogata plays Japanese Bill Gates type computer businessman.
The kid with a camera says farewell to grandmother here.
Obit from Steven Shaviro who has seen Edward Yang’s early films.
I remember being stunned and blown away by The Terrorizer (1986) when I saw it at the Seattle Film Festival: sometime in the late 1980s. It was an elegant, beautifully meditative, and deeply unsettling exploration of urban anomie and alienation, paranoia, and random encounters.