YI YI (CRITERION COLLECTION)

Details

• Release Year: 2000
• Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
• Plot: With the runaway international acclaim of this film, Taiwanese director Edward Yang could no longer be called Asian cinema’s best-kept secret. Yi Yi swiftly follows a middle-class family in Taipei over the course of one year, beginning with a wedding and ending with a funeral. Whether chronicling middle-aged father NJ’s tenuous flirtations with an old flame or precocious young son Yang-Yang’s attempts at capturing reality with his beloved camera, Yang imbues every gorgeous frame with a deft, humane clarity. Warm, sprawling, and dazzling, this intimate epic is one of the undisputed masterworks of the new century.
• Cast: Nien-Jen Wu, Elaine Jin, Issei Ogata, Kelly Lee, Jonathan Chang, Hsi-Sheng Chen, Su-Yun Ko, Shu-shen Hsiao, Adriene Lin, Pang Chang Yu, Ru-Yun Tang, Hsin-Yi Tseng, Yue-Lin Ko, Kai-Li Peng, Congsheng Tang, Edward Yang
• Director: Edward Yang
• Runtime: 2:53
• Company: 1+2 Seisaku Iinkai, Atom Films
• Media Format: Movie