Yi yi
Drama
Release Date: October 6, 2000
Studio:
WinStar Cinema
Director: Edward Yang
Screenwriter: Edward Yang
Starring: Nien-Jen Wu, Elaine Jin, Issey Ogata, Kelly Lee, Jonathan Chang, Hsi-Sheng Chen, Su-Yun Ko
MPAA Rating: Not available
Official Website: Yiyithemovie.com
NJ Jian, his wife, Min-Min, and their two kids are a typical middle-class family, sharing their Taipei apartment with
Min-Min's elderly mother. Now in his mid-forties, NJ is a partner in a computer hardware firm which made big profits last year but which will soon go bankrupt if it doesn't change direction. NJ
warms to the idea of teaming up with Ota, an innovative designer of games software in Japan, and enjoys spending time with the charming and urbane Japanese man. Things start to go wrong for the
Jians on the day that Min-Min's brother A-Di gets married. That's the day when Min-Min's mother suffers a stroke and is rushed to hospital in a coma from which she may never awaken. It's also the
day when NJ bumps into Sherry, his first childhood sweetheart, a woman (now married to an American) he hasn't seen for twenty years. In the following weeks, Min-Min will go through a minor
breakdown and disappear to a religious retreat, her daughter Ting-Ting will get her first, rough lessons in love, her son Yang-Yang will get into trouble at school and her brother A-Di will have
to deal with a clash between the bride he chose and the woman he spurned. There will be an ugly murder in the apartment block where the Jians live; a young man will give in to his sense that life
is inherently unfair and cruel, and commit a crime which will ruin his own life. Meanwhile NJ will go to Tokyo to negotiate with Ota – but also to secretly meet Sherry and find out if life really
can give him a second chance. Trailer:
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