Each member of a middle class Taipei family seeks to reconcile past and present relationships within their daily lives.
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Edward YangWriter:
Edward Yang
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Nien-Jen Wu | ... | N.J. (as Nianzhen Wu) | |
| Elaine Jin | ... | Min-Min | |
| Issei Ogata | ... | Mr. Ota | |
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Kelly Lee | ... | Ting-Ting |
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Jonathan Chang | ... | Yang-Yang |
| Hsi-Sheng Chen | ... | A-Di (as Xisheng Chen) | |
| Su-Yun Ko | ... | Sherry Chang-Breitner (as Suyun Ke) | |
| Chuan-cheng Tao | ... | Dada (as Michael Tao) | |
| Shu-shen Hsiao | ... | Xiao-Yan (as Shushen Xiao) | |
| Meng-chin 'Adriene' Lin | ... | Lili (as Adrian Lin) | |
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Pang Chang Yu | ... | Pangzi (as Yupang Chang) |
| Ru-Yun Tang | ... | Grandma (as Ruyun Tang) | |
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Shu-Yuan Hsu | ... | Mrs. Jiang (as Shuyuan Xu) |
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Hsin-Yi Tseng | ... | Yunyun (as Xinyi Zeng) |
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Yung-Feng Lee | ... | Migo (as Yungfeng Li) |
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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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Release Date:
16 December 2000 (Japan) See more »Also Known As:
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Opening Weekend USA:
$9,456, 8 October 2000, Limited ReleaseGross USA:
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Title translation: One One. See more »Quotes
N.J.: I had chance to relive part of my youth.My first thought was then i could make things turnout differently but they turned out the same or not much different.I suddenly realized that even if i was given a second chance i wouldn't need it, I really wouldn't.See more »
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I'd love to do a systematic investigation of every reflective shot in this movie. I can think of 10 stunning examples off the top of my head. In the director's comments track on the DVD you can hear Edward get noticeably excited when another reflective shot presents itself on screen. He points them all out, and it's true that the shots do seem to present themselves to the director. Although you must assume he had something to do with them, he confesses that it was magic that he discovered when he got to the location. Neither he nor I can explain what effect the superimposition of a night cityscape on a dark office space has on our understanding of the emotional world of the character sandwiched between the layers of light.
It seems there is magic at work all around. But it is not magic at all, as we learn from Mr. Ota's card trick -- merely attention. Maybe it's the reflection's ability to split out attention out into many streams of thought and quickly focus it back down that gives his scenes their vertiginous exhilaration. How else to explain the rush one feels from looking at a completely static shot where you can barely make out the actors?
He set out to make a film about family but I think he discovered he also wanted to make a film about life in Taipei. The reflections are the device that lets him make two movies at once. I think that's what is most special about each reflective shot. It is the instantaneous visual realization of an epic goal, and a reminder to the audience of both themes working in the movie.
His assuredness and gentleness astounds me.