Movie Description
Yi Yi: A One and a Two is a Taiwanese/Japanese film written and directed by Edward Yang, about the emotional struggles of a businessman and the lives of his middle-class Taiwanese family in Taipei seen through three generations. The title in Chinese means "one by one", in the sense of "one after another." Yi Yi premiered at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival, where Yang won the Best Director Award. In 2002, Yi Yi was selected by the British film magazine Sight and Sound as one of the ten greatest films of the past 25 years, along with Apocalypse Now, Raging Bull, Fanny and Alexander, Goodfellas, Blue Velvet, Do the Right Thing, Blade Runner, Chungking Express, Distant Voices, Still Lives, and Once Upon a Time in America.
