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Availability: Out Of Print - This title is currently unavailable and/or out of print. Other versions may still be available; and will be listed on the right side of your screen. AKA: YiYi (A One and A Two) Literally Translated Title: One One Director: Edward Yang Released: 2000 [Taiwan] Genre: Drama     Sub-Genre: Art Keywords:  Family / Siblings || Relationship(s) || Slice of Life || Taiwan

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HKFlix Says:	A fantastic film about ordinary life. Wonderful characters, so heartbreakingly human, collectively weave a rich and complex story.
Avg. Rating:	4.3 / 5 (based on 3 ratings). What did you think of it?
Plot:	"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.
Overview:	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 streetlights to narrate little moral tales. Perhaps the most powerful gem in this film is the magical character of Mr. Ota (Issey Ogata), NJ's Japanese business associate, whose optimistic life perspective will inspire and delight YI YI's viewers.
Cast:	Wu Nien-Jen  ||  Diane Jin  ||  Kelly Lee  ||  Issey Ogata  ||  Jonathan Chang (Click any actor to search for more of their movies!)
Running Time:	173 mins. (approx.)
Languages:	Japanese Mandarin
Subtitles:	ENGLISH, Korean
Distributor:	Starmax  [A Korea-Based Distributor]
Rating:	IIA - "Some Content May Be Inappropriate For Children" (roughly equal to an MPPA rating of "PG-13") Films rated Category IIA may contain mild violence such as martial arts, mild nudity that is not sexually oriented, mild explicit language and some mild adult situations.
Features:	Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1 Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround 3 Trailers About The Film Cast & Filmmaker Information