Yi Yi: Time and Space
By July 10, 2006
Near the end of Edward Yang’s unjustly maligned 1996 film Mahjong, a teenage boy is humiliated by a group of older women, and he starts to cry. Yang quietly cuts to a vista Read more »
SYNOPSIS: 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.
| NJ Jian | Nianzhen Wu |
| Min-Min | Elaine Jin |
| Mr. Ota | Issey Ogata |
| Ting-Ting | Kelly Lee |
| Yang-Yang | Jonathan Chang |
| A-Di | Xisheng Chen |
| Director | Edward Yang |
| Producer | Shinya Kawai and Naoko Tsukeda |
| Associate producers | Osamu Kubota and Weiyen Yu |
| Cinematography | Weihan Yang |
| Lighting | Longyu Li |
| Editing | Bowen Chen |
| Sound | Duzhi Du |
| Music | Kaili Peng |
| Art direction | Zhengkai Wang |
By July 10, 2006
Near the end of Edward Yang’s unjustly maligned 1996 film Mahjong, a teenage boy is humiliated by a group of older women, and he starts to cry. Yang quietly cuts to a vista Read more »