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.
Cast
| NJ Jian | Nianzhen Wu |
| Min-Min | Elaine Jin |
| Mr. Ota | Issey Ogata |
| Ting-Ting | Kelly Lee |
| Yang-Yang | Jonathan Chang |
| A-Di | Xisheng Chen |
Credits
| 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 |
Disc Features
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer
- Audio commentary by writer-director Edward Yang and noted Asian-cinema critic Tony Rayns
- New video interview with Rayns about Yang and the New Taiwan Cinema movement
- Optional English subtitle translation by Yang and Rayns
- U.S. theatrical trailer
- PLUS: A new essay by Kent Jones and notes from the director
From the Current
Yi Yi: Time and Space
by Jul 10, 2006Near 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 of Taipei, and the boy’s sobbing merges with the night. A city of sadness indeed.This strategy—call it...
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