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Dec 16, 2000 · Yi Yi: Directed by Edward Yang. With Nien-Jen Wu, Issei Ogata, Elaine Jin, Kelly Lee. Each member of a middle-class Taipei family seeks to reconcile past and present relationships within their daily lives.
The extraordinary, internationally embraced Yi Yi ( A One and a Two . . . ), directed by the late Taiwanese master Edward Yang, follows a middle-class family in Taipei over the course of one year, beginning with a wedding and ending with a funeral.
May 22, 2020 · “Yi Yi” chronicles a dry summer in the lives of a Taipei family just before the turn of the 21st century. It starts with a wedding, ends with a funeral, and pauses for a birth around the halfway...
Set in Taiwan, the film follows the lives of the Jian family from the alternating perspectives of the three main family members: father N.J. (Nien-Jen Wu), teenage daughter Ting-Ting...
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Yi Yi is one of those rare films that seems to be about everything that matters in our lives. It's the story of a family and uses different generations to cover an entire life. We see youth, adolescence, marriage, middle age, and death.
Buttressed between two milestone events within their personal sphere, the lives of the Jians - husband and wife N.J. and Min-Min, teenage daughter Ting-Ting, and eight year old son Yang-Yang - and to a lesser extent that of their broader grouping of extended family and friends, are presented.
Oct 6, 2000 · On one level, Yi Yi is classic soap opera, with a suicide attempt, a wedding ceremony, even a brutal 11 o'clock news murder, all in the mix. But Yang's direction is so admirably restrained, it lends rich heft to everything.
