Yi Yi
Yi Yi

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- 81/100 based on 26,790 votes
  • Released: 2000
  • Runtime: 174 mins
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  • Studio: Omega Project
  • Genres: Drama

Buttressed between two milestone events within their personal sphere, the lives of the Jians - husband and wife N.J. and Min-Min, teenage daughter Ting-Ting, and eight year old son Yang-Yang - and to a lesser extent that of their broader grouping of extended family and friends, are presented. The Jians live in an upscale apartment complex in Taipei along with Min-Min's mother, who has fallen into a coma, each family member who takes turns by her bedside to relay life's goings... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Yi Yi:

Wu Nien-jen
Issey Ogata
Elaine Jin Yan-Ling
Kelly Lee
Jonathan Chang
Chen Hsi-sheng

Full Plot Details

Buttressed between two milestone events within their personal sphere, the lives of the Jians - husband and wife N.J. and Min-Min, teenage daughter Ting-Ting, and eight year old son Yang-Yang - and to a lesser extent that of their broader grouping of extended family and friends, are presented. The Jians live in an upscale apartment complex in Taipei along with Min-Min's mother, who has fallen into a coma, each family member who takes turns by her bedside to relay life's goings-on to her regardless of if she can hear them. While Min-Min has troubles with this on-going task, the other three use her as an unofficial sounding board for their issues, primarily in the realm of finding their place in current life and their role in her predicament. Yang-Yang still has a child's simple perspective of the world, such as the reason he has a penchant for taking photographs of the back of people's heads, that naiveté exactly the reason he is the target of bullying especially among a group of older girls, and by one of his teachers. Ting-Ting is acting as the unofficial intermediary in the complicated relationship between her best friend and next door neighbor Lili, and her boyfriend Fatty. It is made all the more difficult as Ting-Ting has feelings for Fatty herself. And N.J., a computer electronics engineer, is seen as the honest one among him and his partners, which is why he is chosen to deal with Japanese Mr. Ota in assessing if it worth the expensive but potentially lucrative risk of going into business with him. Concurrently, N.J., who uses Mr. Ota as a confidante of sorts in their emerging friendship, reunites and becomes reacquainted with childhood friend Sherry, married and now living in Chicago, she who could have been the one in his life if he ended up keeping their appointment thirty years ago. Min-Min's younger brother A-Di may face that same conundrum thirty years down the road as he just married Xiao-Yan partly for a very specific reason, while his old girlfriend Yunyun fumes on the sidelines.

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Chicago Tribune - 10/10 by Michael WilmingtonAn amazing experience: as if a TV soap opera, packed with the usual catastrophes, were done with unaccustomed depth and real storytelling genius.
Toronto Star - 10/10 by Geoff PevereLife-affirming in the most genuine, respectful and least mechanical sense.
DVDTalk.com - 10/10 by David CorneliusYi Yi is a rare work of beauty, a thoughtful, touching, compelling study of humanity that demands to be seen.
City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul - 10/10 by Rob NelsonA heartfelt and involving family drama to which even the most subtitle-wary moviegoer could relate.
Brooklyn Magazine - 10/10 by Kristen Yoonsoo KimI felt like I had lived it, and not just because of its nearly three-hour runtime.
Slant Magazine - 10/10 by Ed GonzalezThe film’s brilliance emanates equally from its structure (the story is delicately bookended by two cultural rituals: a wedding and a funeral), the acuteness of its gaze, and Yang’s acknowledgement of life as a series of alternately humdrum and catastrophic occurrences, like a flower that blooms in the summer and wilts in the fall; he hopes you will notice it, because seeing is what validates its unique extraordinariness.
The New York Times - 10/10 by Dana StevensIn exchange for three hours of your time, Yi Yi will give you more life.
Entertainment Weekly - 10/10 by Lisa SchwarzbaumThese 173 minutes don't drag, they waltz.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer - 10/10 by William ArnoldIt's a magical film -- an exquisitely made and exceedingly wise family drama that communicates a touching sense of the universality of the human condition, and leaves us with the rich emotional satisfaction we just don't seem to get often at the movies anymore.
Christian Science Monitor - 10/10 by David SterrittYang favors a gentle and introspective style that shows how deep and strong everyday emotions can run. A memorable treat.

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