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Original title: Yi yi
Release Date
• USA: Oct 6, 2000
• UK: 2 Nov 2000
DVD Release Date
• R1: May 8, 2001
Running Time
2 hours, 53 minutes
Country Taiwan, Japan
Studio 1+2 Seisaku Iinkai, Atom Films, Omega Project, Pony Canyon
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Other Titles
• Yi yi: A One and a Two... (2000)
• Yi yi
• Yan Yan - Natsu no omoide (2000)
• A One And A Two
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Genre: Drama, Experimental, Murder, Urban, Love, Law, Infidelity
Plot: 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.Edward Yang, director of 1991's A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY, presents a careful, direct, meticulously photographed film with YI YI. Brassy shots of Taipei reflected in the windows of a moving car are offset with slow choreographed sequences using the
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