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Tsai Ming­-Liang has become one of the most profound voices in world cinema. His work traverses a wide spectrum of mediums: art and video installations, street performances, theatre, painting, and, of course, cinema.

This 2-disc Blu-ray Special Edition brings together two of his sublimely contemplative film works.

Days is Tsai Ming-Liang's sensuous meditation on solitude, delivered as a series of beautifully composed, delicately hued tableaux. The uneventful lives of two men unfold until they eventually cross paths, brought together out of loneliness and the need for intimacy.

Afternoon captures a wide-ranging, absorbing conversation between Tsai and Lee Kang-sheng, the actor, collaborator and muse who has appeared in all of Tsai's films, as they reflect on their lives, careers, friendship and identity.

2-disc Blu-ray Special features:
• Days (Rìzi, 2020) / Afternoon (Na ri xia wu, 2015) presented from new digital transfers from original materials, approved by the director.
• Cover image by Tsai Ming-Liang.
• A filmed interview with Tsai Ming-Liang.
• Wandering (2021): a short film by Tsai Ming-Liang.
• Tsai Ming-Liang in conversation with Tony Rayns at the East Asia Film Festival Ireland, 2019.
• Teasers and Trailers.
• 5.1 DTS Audio option on Days.
• Booklet with a new essay by writer/curator So Mayer.
• UK premieres on Blu-ray.
• Region free Blu-rays (A/B/C)

October 21, 2024

"New digital transfers from original materials" - so I guess this means this will look pretty different to the Blu-rays issued elsewhere?

same short as the Grasshopper but may be an exclusive interview (I'm sure it will be) and that interview with Rayns are both different. since I get all SR releases I'll own this. very cool that Tsai designed the cover! wish he'd done one for Goodbye Dragon Inn also - maybe if Second Run do more of his movies we'll see this...

"These are wonderfully complementary films, each of which demands focused attention through subtlety and slowness, but rewards it in spades. [...]
These exquisitely detailed films have been exactingly presented and look magnificent."

Hannah McGill reviews our new 2-disc Blu-ray edition of Tsai Ming-Liang's DAYS and AFTERNOON in Sight and Sound Magazine

**** RELEASE DATE CHANGE / UPDATE ****
Frustratingly, we've discovered an issue with AFTERNOON (Disc 2 in the set).
We're fortunate in that no retail copies of the 2-disc set had yet been sent out, but as a result we're now having to move our release date to 18 November to accommodate the re-manufacture and re-packing of the AFTERNOON disc.
We're sorry for any inconvenience caused and thank you for your patience and understanding.

Orbit got this in stock today, I wonder if it's the corrected version? I'd be impressed if you guys shipped transatlantic that quickly!

Full details now at our website

ryannichols7 wrote: Fri Oct 18, 2024 6:13 am Orbit got this in stock today, I wonder if it's the corrected version? I'd be impressed if you guys shipped transatlantic that quickly!

Corrected version has 'V2' suffix
https://imgur.com/a/4MEwzED

Ah, that explains why my copy wasn't shrinkwrapped!

And the disc of Afternoon is indeed marked "V2".

"[DAYS and AFTERNOON present] a fly on the wall examination of the lyricism in day-to-day life. [...] a fine presentation with faultless reproductions of both features."
Mondo Digital

This is a really excellent film. I thought Stray Dogs, the next most recent feature I’ve seen, was weak and showed some limits to his style, but with Days Tsai despite going even further to his kind of minimalism shows a talent for emotional storytelling that avoids the obvious tropes of the baseline narrative. The movie is fairly similar to Haigh’s Weekend and parts of Sunday Bloody Sunday to the point I’m not sure if it actually adds anything new to them, but how this old horse shows itself is still very stirring for me.