Yi Yi (DVD)

DIRECTED BY - Edward Yang

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RUNTIME - 173 minutes

RATING - Not Rated

YEAR - 2000

FORMAT - DVD Region 1

COUNTRY - Japan, Taiwan

LANGUAGE - Mandarin

SUBTITLES - English

ATTRIBUTES - Widescreen, Color, Anamorphic

GENRES - drama

Film Info

Focusing on a typical family - parents, two children, and an elderly grandmother - living in a small apartment in Taipei, YI YI (A ONE AND A TWO) is about the patterns of daily life. It includes a wedding, a funeral, a first date, a last date, a birth, and a death. The film follows each member of the Jian family carefully, giving each one equal time, completely developing each character. NJ (Wu Nienjen), the father of the family, struggles with a dead-end job at a technology firm while reexamining his marriage when he meets his high school sweetheart, Sherry (Ke Suyun), after 30 years. NJ's teenage daughter, Ting-Ting (Kelly Lee), has a selfless demeanor and a naive interest in everything, which diffuses the complexity of her high school life. Her little brother, Yang-Yang (Jonathan Chang), is an adorable five-year-old troublemaker who's in love with a pesky girl in his class. And Yang-Yang's mother, Min-Min (Elaine Jin), grieves for her dying mother (Tang Runyun) while coping with her own middle age in a rapidly maturing family.