Yi Yi
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| Directed by | Edward Yang |
| Produced by | Shinya Kawai |
| Written by | Edward Yang |
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Wu Nien-jen Elaine Jin Issey Ogata Kelly Lee Jonathan Chang Hsi-Sheng Chen Su-Yun Ko |
| Music by | Kai-Li Peng |
| Cinematography | Wei-han Yang |
| Edited by | Bo-Wen Chen |
| Distributed by | Kuzui Enterprises |
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173 minutes |
| Country | Taiwan Japan |
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Mandarin Taiwanese Japanese English |
Yi Yi (Chinese: ; pinyin: Yī Yī; literally: "one one") is a Taiwanese/Japanese film written and directed by Edward Yang, about the emotional struggles of an engineer named NJ (played by Wu Nien-jen) and the lives of his middle-class Taiwanese family in Taipei seen through three generations.
The title in Chinese means "one by one", in the sense of "one after another." When written in vertical alignment, the two strokes resemble the character for "two" ().
Yi Yi premiered at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival, where Yang won the Best Director Award. It is now generally regarded as one of the major films of the 2000s.
Yi Yi is an epic story about the Taipei Jian family seen through three perspectives: the middle-age father NJ (Wu Nien-jen), the young son Yang-Yang (Jonathan Chang), and the teenage daughter, Ting-Ting (Kelly Lee). The three-hour piece starts with a wedding, concludes with a funeral, and contemplates areas of human life in between.
The father, NJ, is unsatisfied with his work and the desire of his business partners to enter into a deal with a well-known Japanese videogame company. While his partners are only concerned about making money, NJ finds that his honest nature is unappreciated in the commercial realm. To his surprise, he finds a connection with the Japanese software mogul, Ota. An old flame, Sherry, tries to walk into his life after a chance reunion.
His youngest son has troubles at school with his teachers, while his daughter has to handle a love triangle involving her friend next door and her troubled boyfriend. All three try to deal with their problems while caring for NJ's mother-in-law, who is in a coma, and in the absence of NJ's wife, who has left for a Buddhist retreat after facing a midlife crisis. In addition, A-Di, NJ's overweight brother-in-law who marries a starlet at the start of the film, has to wrestle with his demanding wife and a former love, complicating matters within this extended family.
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