Yang guang can lan de ri zi (1994) [Upgrade] AKA In the Heat of the Sun

Beijing, the Seventies. Now that the Cultural Revolution has driven most adults to the provinces, 14-year old Monkey and his pals have free reign over the city. They hang around, get up to no good and discover that unsolvable mystery more commonly referred to as ‘girls’.

Director: Jiang Wen. AKA In the Heat of the Sun 
Writers: Wen Jiang, Shuo Wang (story “Wild Beasts”).
Stars: Xia Yu, Han Dong, Jiang Wen, Ning Jing, Siqin Gaowa, Wang Xue-Qi, Fang Hua, Feng Xiao-Gang, Wang Shuo, Gao Bao-Cheng, Geng Le, Liu Xiao-Ning, Shang Nan, Sun Jing, Liu Bin, Dai Shao-Bo, Zhang Wei, Yang Tong-Lin.
Cinematographer: Changwei Gu.
Composer: Wenjing Guo.

1994 Venice Film Festival – Nominated for the Golden Lion. 陽光燦爛的日子

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Note: Alright guys, here’s the much-awaited upgrade of this film by Jiang Wen, this rip comes from the digital restoration done in 2013 from a 35mm print located at L’lmmagine Ritrovata in Bologna, Italy, it’s presented in HD in it’s original 1.85:1 AR and it runs 140 minutes, this is believed to be the most complete version up to date. Unfortunately the copy suffers of some ghosting effects which you can mostly notice when there’s camera movements, the original file already had this problem, probably someone screwed it up during the digitization process or something, nonetheless it still looks pretty good. Enjoy y’all!!