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Overview
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Release Date:
20 September 2000 (France) morePlot:
Each member of a family in Taipei asks hard questions about life's meaning as they live through everyday quandaries... more | add synopsisAwards:
9 wins & 11 nominations moreNewsDesk:
(4 articles)
Weekend Rental: Yi Yi (From ioncinema. 7 July 2007)
Director Yang Dies
(From WENN. 2 July 2007)
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insightful masterpiece more (79 total)Cast
(Credited cast)| Nien-Jen Wu | ... | N.J. | |
| Elaine Jin | ... | Min-Min | |
| Issei Ogata | ... | Ota | |
| Kelly Lee | ... | Ting-Ting | |
| Jonathan Chang | ... | Yang-Yang | |
| Hsi-Sheng Chen | ... | Ah-Di | |
| Su-Yun Ko | ... | Sherry | |
| Shu-shen Hsiao | ... | Hsiao Yen | |
| Adriene Lin | ... | Li-Li | |
| Pang Chang Yu | ... | Fatty | |
| Ru-Yun Tang | ... | NJ's Mother | |
| Shu-Yuan Hsu | |||
| Hsin-Yi Tseng | ... | Yun-Yun | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Yiwen Chen | |||
| An-an Hsu | |||
| Yue-Lin Ko | ... | The Soldier (as Ke Yulun) | |
| Kai-Li Peng | ... | Cellist in cello concert scene | |
| Congsheng Tang | ... | Blue Shirt | |
| Edward Yang | ... | Pianist in cello concert scene | |
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Also Known As:
Yan Yan - Natsu no omoide (Japan)Yi yi: A One and a Two... (International: English title)
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Add content advisory for parentsRuntime:
173 minColor:
ColorAspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 moreSound Mix:
DolbyCertification:
Portugal:M/12 | Finland:S | France:U | Germany:6 | Hong Kong:IIA | South Korea:All | Spain:13 | Sweden:7 | Switzerland:10 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:10 (canton of Vaud) | UK:15 | USA:Not Rated | Singapore:PGFilming Locations:
Taipei City, TaiwanFun Stuff
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Chosen by "Les Cahiers du cinéma" (France) as one of the ten best pictures of 2000 (#7, tied with The Virgin Suicides (1999)). moreSoundtrack:
One More Moon moreFAQ
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This insightful, beautifully written and directed film contemplates on many things concerning the modern individual. The focus is a family in Taipei, the feelings, struggles, conflicts of family members at different life stages. The architecture is used as a part of the story, the surroundings the characters are in, always seem to tell us something about that particular situation. The effects of modernity and capitalism on the individual and traditional values are aptly analyzed and basic human emotions like love, loneliness, commitment and frustration are contemplated with a hard to match observation and tenderness. The little boy seems to verbalize the director's approach to film making: "We only understand half of everything because we can only see what's in front of us." and Yang's camera aptly shows us "the other side" of every situation. As a character says "with films, we experience many more lives than we actually can in one lifetime" and this film is a whole life experience in 3 hours.