That Day, on the Beach

1983 Taiwanese film

Sylvia Chang
Terry Hu

CinematographyChristopher Doyle
Hui-Kung Chang

Release date

1983 (1983)

Running time

166 minutesCountryTaiwanLanguagesMandarin
German
Japanese
Taiwanese Hokkien

That Day, on the Beach (Chinese: 海灘的一天; pinyin: Hǎitān de yītiān) is a 1983 Taiwanese New Wave drama and the first feature film by Edward Yang. The film deals with two old friends, played by Sylvia Chang and Terry Hu, who encounter each other in Taipei. Yang had to convince the film's production company to allow Christopher Doyle to shoot the film; Doyle would go on to win the Best Cinematography prize at the 1983 Asia-Pacific Film Festival for his work on That Day, on the Beach.^[1] Yang's fellow Taiwanese New Wave director Hou Hsiao-hsien also plays a role in the film.

The film is sometimes cited as the first in the Taiwanese New Wave.^[2]

References

^ Lee, Daw-Ming. Historical Dictionary of Taiwan Cinema. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-8108-6792-5.
^ Danielsen, Shane (3 July 2007). "I will miss Edward Yang". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 July 2017.

General references

Graham, Pat. "That Day, on the Beach". Chicago Reader. Retrieved 21 July 2017.
Anderson, John (April 2005). Edward Yang. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-07236-9.
Abrams, Simon (17 November 2011). "A Rational Mind: The Films of Edward Yang". Slant. Retrieved 21 July 2017.
Wen, Alex (17 March 2016). "That Day, On the Beach". New Bloom. Retrieved 21 July 2017.