---
title: 'Yi Yi (2000)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Edward Yang'
released: '2000-05-14'
runtime_minutes: 173
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'Taiwan'
  - 'Japan'
themes:
  - 'Parents and Children'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/yi-yi-2000'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0244316/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Yi Yi (2000)

2000 · 173 min · Drama · Taiwan, Japan

Original title: 一一
Part of: BBC's 100 Greatest Films of the 21st Century

## Synopsis

Yi Yi is a 2000 Taiwanese drama film written and directed by Edward Yang. It centers on the struggles of an engineer, NJ, and three generations of his middle-class Taiwanese family in Taipei.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Edward Yang](https://cinepixo.com/people/edward-yang)
- **Screenplay:** [Edward Yang](https://cinepixo.com/people/edward-yang)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Kaili Peng](https://cinepixo.com/people/kaili-peng)
- **Producer:** [Shin'ya Kawai](https://cinepixo.com/people/shin-ya-kawai), [Naoko Tsukeda](https://cinepixo.com/people/naoko-tsukeda)
- **Editor:** [Chen Po-Wen](https://cinepixo.com/people/chen-po-wen)

## Cast

- [Cheryl Yang](https://cinepixo.com/people/cheryl-yang)
- [Nien-Chu Hsieh](https://cinepixo.com/people/nien-chu-hsieh)
- [Wu Nien-jen](https://cinepixo.com/people/wu-nien-jen)
- [Kelly Lee](https://cinepixo.com/people/kelly-lee)
- [Shau-Ching Sung](https://cinepixo.com/people/shau-ching-sung)
- [Lo Pei-An](https://cinepixo.com/people/lo-pei-an)
- [Hsiao Shu-shen](https://cinepixo.com/people/hsiao-shu-shen)
- [Leon Dai](https://cinepixo.com/people/leon-dai)
- [Wang Chi-tsan](https://cinepixo.com/people/wang-chi-tsan)
- [Issey Ogata](https://cinepixo.com/people/issey-ogata)
- [Tang Tsung Sheng](https://cinepixo.com/people/tang-tsung-sheng)
- [Edward Yang](https://cinepixo.com/people/edward-yang)
- [Lee Yung-feng](https://cinepixo.com/people/lee-yung-feng)
- [Tang Ru-Yun](https://cinepixo.com/people/tang-ru-yun)
- [Danny Deng](https://cinepixo.com/people/danny-deng)

## Themes & motifs

- [Parents and Children](https://cinepixo.com/topics/parents-and-children) (theme) — Three generations get equal screen time and the same question, and the boy photographing the backs of people's heads is doing to them what the film does to his family.

Editorial, not imported: every axis and every sentence above was written here.

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/yi-yi-2000
Film facts: Wikidata (Q704513); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.