YI YI

A ONE AND A TWO

By Edward YANG

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Romance - Completed 2000

Each member of a middle class Taipei family seeks to reconcile past and present relationships within their daily lives.

    • Year of production
    • 2000
    • Genres
    • Romance, Drama
    • Countries
    • TAIWAN, JAPAN
    • Languages
    • MANDARIN
    • Duration
    • 173 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Edward YANG
    • Synopsis
    • Each member of a family in Taipei asks hard questions about life's meaning as they live through everyday quandaries. NJ is morose: his brother owes him money, his mother is in a coma, his wife suffers a spiritual crisis when she finds her life a blank, his business partners make bad decisions against his advice, and he reconnects with his first love 30 years after he dumped her. His teenage daughter Ting-Ting watches emotions roil in their neighbors' flat and is experiencing the first stirrings of love. His 8-year-old son Yang-Yang is laconic like his dad and pursues truth with the help of a camera. "Why is the world so different from what we think it is?" asks Ting-Ting.