A Confucian Confusion 4K Restored Edition

[Machine Translation] Edward Yang's most ambitious film. After a long period of inaccessibility due to complicated rights issues, the film has been restored in a 4K restored version and is now available in a long-awaited DVD package that has received rave reviews at film festivals around the world, including its world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival in 2022! --Taipei in the early 1990s is undergoing rapid westernization and economic development. The company run by Maury, the daughter of a conglomerate, is not doing well, and she and her fiance, Akin, a sergeant of a large conglomerate, are not getting along. Her best friend, Chi-chi, works for Maury's company, but she is being pushed around by Maury's business activities, and her relationship with her boyfriend Min, who works at the government office, is also under a cloud. Maury's sister, a popular TV show host, is separated from her husband, a novelist who used to be a very popular romance star. Birdie, a classmate of Maury and Chichi's who is a stage director, is frightened that she will be found to have plagiarized the novelist's work. Larry, Akin's advisory consultant, is a womanizer, and he tries to seduce Maury. Larry's mistress, Von, an aspiring actor, used to work for Morley's company but is fired. Min's colleague, Lee Leng, falsifies documents when the contractor cries that the construction schedule is late.

Special Feature / Bonus Track: trailer

エドワード・ヤン最大の野心作。権利関係の複雑さにより長らく上映不可能だったが、修復作業を経て4Kレストア版として復活。2022年のヴェネチア国際映画祭でのワールドプレミアをはじめ、世界中の映画祭で絶賛された本作が待望のDVDにてパッケージ化! ――急速な西洋化と経済発展を遂げる1990年代前半の台北。財閥の娘、モーリーが経営する会社の状況は良くなく、彼女と婚約者で大財閥の御曹司アキンとの仲もうまくいっていない。親友チチは、モーリーの会社で働いているが、モーリーの仕事ぶりに振り回され、役所に勤める恋人ミンとの関係も雲行きが怪しい。人気テレビ番組の司会者であるモーリーの姉は、かつてラブロマンスの名手として絶大な人気を誇った小説家の夫と別居中。モーリーとチチの同級生で舞台演出家のバーディは小説家の作品を盗用したことがばれないか怯えている。アキンの顧問コンサルタントのラリーは女癖が悪く、モーリーを口説きにかかる。ラリーの愛人で俳優志望のフォンはモーリーの会社で働いていたが解雇される。ミンの同僚のリーレンは工期が遅れた業者に泣きつかれ書類を偽造する。

映像特典: 予告編 (約2分)