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Yi Yi is a taiwanais film of genre Drama directed by Edward Yang (楊德昌) with Wu Nien-jen
Yi Yi (2000)
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Add to a movie listYi Yi: A One and a Two () is a Taiwanese/Japanese film written and directed by Edward Yang, about the emotional struggles of a businessman 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 二, meaning "two."
Yi Yi premiered at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival, where Yang won the Best Director Award.
Synopsis
Yi Yi is an epic story about the Taipei Jian family seen through three perspectives: the middle-age father NJ (Nien-Jen Wu), 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.Actors
Wu Nien-jen
(N.J.)
Elaine Jin
(Min-Min)
Issei Ogata
(Mr. Ota)
Kenjiro Tsuda
(Robata Restaurant Clerk)
Edward Yang (楊德昌)
(Pianist (uncredited))
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