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A Confucian Confusion/Mahjong - The Criterion Collection

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Number of Discs
2

Release Date
25/08/2025

Studio
Criterion Collection

format
Blu-ray / Restored

Certificate UK
15

Duration
246

Description

In this pair of sharp, sprawling satires, one of Taiwan's most celebrated filmmakers, Edward Yang, captures the anything-can-happen mood of Taipei at the end of the twentieth century. Made in between his epic dramas A Brighter Summer Day and Yi Yi, A Confucian Confusion and Mahjong find Yang applying a lighter but no less masterly touch to his explorations of human relationships in an increasingly globalized, hypercapitalistic world. These intricately constructed ensemble comedies - one set in a cutthroat corporate milieu, the other in a shady criminal underworld - reveal the absurdity and cynicism at the heart of modern urban life. A Confucian Confusion: Edward Yang's first foray into comedy may have been a surprising stylistic departure, but in its richly novelistic vision of urban discontent, it is quintessential Yang. This relationship roundelay centres on a coterie of young Taipei professionals whose paths converge at an entertainment company where the boundaries between art and commerce, love and business, have become hopelessly blurred. Evoking the chaos of a city infiltrated by Western chains, logos, and attitudes, A Confucian Confusion is an incisive reflection on the role of traditional values in a materialistic, amoral society. Mahjong: Edward Yang's follow-up to A Confucian Confusion is another dizzying comedy set in a globalized Taipei, but with a darker, more caustic edge. Amid a rapidly changing cityscape, the lives of a disparate group of swindlers, hustlers, gangsters, and expats collide, with a naive French teenager (Virginie Ledoyen) and a sensitive young local (Lawrence Ko) who tries to protect her caught dangerously in the middle. By turns brutal, shocking, tender, and bitingly funny, Mahjong is a dazzling vision of a multicultural Taipei where nearly every relationship has a price and newfound prosperity comes at the expense of the human soul.

Actor: Wang Wei-ming
Actor: Lawrence Ko
Producer: Wei-Yen Yu
Music: Antonio Lee
Cinematographer: Lung-Yu Li
Actor: Shu-Chun Ni
Actor: Bosen Wang
Actor: Richie Li
Actor: Danny Deng
Cinematographer: Li Yi-Hsu
Actor: Tang Tsung Sheng
Actor: Chen Li-Mei
Actor: Carrie Ng
Actor: Chang Chen
Actor: Chen Shiang-chyi
Actor: Virginie Ledoyen
Director: Edward Yang
Writer: Edward Yang

Main Format
Blu-ray

Keyword Index
A Confucian Confusion/Mahjong - The Criterion Collection|Shu-Chun Ni

Alternative Title
Two Films By Edward Yang

Colour
Colour

Region
Region B

Subtitles
Subtitled

Extras 1
High Definition extras tbc

Extras 2
Language(s):Mandarin, Subtitles:English, InteractiveMenu, Screenratio1-1.85:1, 5.0DTS-HDMasterAudio

Extras 3
Interviews:ChenPo-wen(editor)., ExcerptsofdirectorEdwardYangspeakingaftera1994screeningof'AConfucianConfusion';ConversationbetweenChinese-cultural-studiesscholarMichaelBerryandfilmcriticJustinChang;PerformanceofYang's1992play'LikelyConsequence';EssaybyfilmprogrammerandcriticDennisLim;1994director'snoteon'AConfucianConfusion';NewcoverbyToriHuynh.

Catalogue Number
CC3717BDUK

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