YI YI (WIDESCREEN)

Details

• Release Year: 2000
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: Edward Yang's award-winning masterpiece follows the lives of NJ Jian, his wife, Min-Min, and their two kids who share 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. 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 teh hospital in a coma from which she may never awaken. It's also the day when NJ bumps into his childhood sweetheart, a woman (now married to an American) he hasn't seen for twenty years. In the following weeks, the entire family will have to re-evaluate who they are and what their lives have become.
• Cast: Nien-Jen Wu, Elaine Jin, Issei Ogata, Kelly Lee, Jonathan Chang, Hsi-Sheng Chen, Su-Yun Ko, Shu-shen Hsiao, Adriene Lin, Pang Chang Yu, Ru-Yun Tang, Hsin-Yi Tseng, Yue-Lin Ko, Kai-Li Peng, Congsheng Tang, Edward Yang
• Director: Edward Yang
• Runtime: 2:53
• Company: Wellspring, Pony Canyon, Omega Project Company, Winstar Home Video
• Media Format: movie