Yi yi (2000)
Actors:
Elaine Jin (actress),
Bo-Wen Chen (editor),
Nien-Jen Wu (actor),
Shin'ya Kawai (producer),
Issei Ogata (actor),
Edward Yang (writer),
Edward Yang (actor),
Edward Yang (director),
Tony Rayns (miscellaneous crew),
Shu-Yuan Hsu (actress),
Lawrence Ko (actor),
Yiwen Chen (actor),
Shu-shen Hsiao (actress),
Yoshiko Okura (producer),
Ru-Yun Tang (actress),
Plot: 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.
Keywords: ambulance, animated-sequence, argument, baby, bagel, balloon, ballroom, bathtub, beer, bicycle
Genres:
Drama,
Music,
Romance,
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.
Ota: Why are we afraid of the first time? Every day in life is a first time. Every morning is new. We never live the same day twice. We're never afraid of getting up every morning. Why?
Yang-Yang: I'm sorry, Grandma. It wasn't that I didn't want to talk to you. I think all the stuff I could tell you... You must already know. Otherwise, you wouldn't always tell me to 'Listen!' They all say you've gone away. But you didn't tell me where you went. I guess it's someplace you think I should know. But, Grandma, I know so little. Do you know what I want to do when I grow up? I want to tell people things they don't know. Show them stuff they haven't seen. It'll be so much fun. Perhaps one day... I'll find out where you've gone. If I do, can I tell everyone, and bring them to visit you? Grandma, I miss you. Especially when I see my newborn cousin who still doesn't have a name. He reminds me that you always said you felt old. I want to tell him that I feel I am old, too.