Yi Yi (2000)

Original title

一一

Directed by

Edward Yang

Genre

drama film, slice of life

Country

Taiwan, Japan

Runtime

2h 53m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.9 of 10 from 679 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Three generations of a Taiwanese family in Taipei navigate personal struggles and everyday life. An engineer, his wife, his young son, and his teenage daughter each face their own turning points.

contemplativemelancholicslow-pacedobservationalintimatebittersweetquietreflective

What happens

Yi Yi (Chinese: 一一; pinyin: Yī Yī; lit. 'one one'; subtitled A One and a Two) is a 2000 Taiwanese drama film written and directed by Edward Yang. It centers on the struggles of an engineer, NJ (played by Wu Nien-jen), and three generations of his middle-class Taiwanese family in Taipei. The film's title means "one by one", or "one after another". When written in vertical alignment, the two strokes resemble the character for "two": 二. Yi Yi premiered on May 14, 2000, at the 53rd Cannes Film Festival, where Yang won the Best Director Award. The film has received acclaim and is often regarded as one of the greatest films of the 21st century. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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