Yi Yi (2000)

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173 min - Drama | Music | Romance - 20 September 2000 (France)

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Ratings: 7.9/10 from 7,445 users Metascore: 92/100
Reviews: 85 user | 98 critic | 23 from Metacritic.com

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Cast

Credited cast:
	Nien-Jen Wu	...	N.J.
	Elaine Jin	...	Min-Min
	Issei Ogata	...	Ota
	Kelly Lee	...	Ting-Ting
	Jonathan Chang	...	Yang-Yang
	Hsi-Sheng Chen	...	Ah-Di
	Su-Yun Ko	...	Sherry
	Shu-shen Hsiao	...	Hsiao Yen
	Adriene Lin	...	Li-Li
	Pang Chang Yu	...	Fatty
	Ru-Yun Tang	...	NJ's Mother
	Shu-Yuan Hsu
	Hsin-Yi Tseng	...	Yun-Yun
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
	Yiwen Chen
	An-an Hsu

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Storyline

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. Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>

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Drama | Music | Romance

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Country:

Taiwan | Japan

Language:

Mandarin | Hokkien | English (only a few words) | Japanese (only a few words)

Release Date:

20 September 2000 (France) See more »

Also Known As:

A One and a Two (Yi Yi) See more »

Filming Locations:

Taipei City, Taiwan

Box Office

Opening Weekend:

$9,456 (USA) (8 October 2000) (1 Screen)

Gross:

$901,359 (USA) (24 June 2001)

Company Credits

Production Co:

AtomFilms, Nemuru Otoko Seisaku Iinkai, Omega Project See more »

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Technical Specs

Runtime:

173 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

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Trivia

Issei Ogata's English dialog was re-written and even improvised during the shooting by Ogata himself. Yang wanted to have his Japanese character speaking realistically, not in the stereotypical manner Japanese characters in English-speaking films often do. See more »

Quotes

Ting-Ting: [Subtitled Version] Why is the world so different from what we thought it was? Now that you're awake and see it again... has it changed at all? Now I've closed my eyes... the world I see... is so beautiful.
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Connections

References Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) See more »

Soundtracks

"All My Best"
Composed by Kai-Li Peng
Performed by Kai-Li Peng See more »

Yi Yi (2000)
Yi yi (original title)

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