After Yang
When his young daughter's beloved companion — an android named Yang — malfunctions, Jake searches for a way to repair him. In the process, Jake discovers the life that has been passing in front of him, reconnecting with his wife and daughter across a distance he didn't know was there. From TMDB
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Many viewers find the film beautiful and emotionally resonant, praising its thoughtful exploration of memory, identity, and family. [1][2][3] Some reviewers criticize the slow pacing, which they feel undermines the emotional impact and makes the film feel longer. [4][5][6] A few posters note the film's meditative style and sci-fi elements, but find it too sterile or lacking in substance. [7][8]
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I’m unsure what After Yang tries to accomplish (does it want to be a cautionary tale about the evils of privacy-violating technology? A gentle meditation on the nature of memory? The manifesto for a hypothetical AndroidLivesMatter movement?), but I do know that whatever it is, it fails – just like Jake (Colin Farrell) and Kyra (Jodie Turner-Smith) fail to parent their little daughter Mika (Malea Emma …
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FULL SPOILER-FREE REVIEW @ https://www.msbreviews.com/movie-reviews/after-yang-spoiler-free-review-sundance-2022 "After Yang may have some pacing issues, but Kogonada's beautifully thoughtful storytelling and ASKA's unforgettable, tear-inducing score transform this piece into a contemplative, inspirational cinematic experience. A profound, sincere study of what it means to be a family, what it means to be loved, and …
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'After Yang' is a good movie, plain and simple. My only negative would be how slow paced it is, like I definitely get why it is portrayed the way it is and it has its benefits in certain moments. However, it did take me out of events onscreen here and there. That aside, it's a well made film; there's plenty to chew on in terms of what it's attempting to tell. Colin Farrell, Jodie Turner-Smith, Malea Emma …
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I found in After Yang something I had been searching for for a long time. It is particularly special to me as an Asian whose culture and sense of belonging has faded with each passing generation. My recent quest to rekindle what was once of my ancestors has been especially difficult in a climate that has so flagrantly looked down upon me. After Yang provides a sense of relief in the idea that who you are is not …
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just finished After Yang (2022). wow, what a beautiful film. shot with such care and stillness. no close-ups force-feeding fetishised technology in a world so far flung in the future, each scene breathes with all the feeling it's meant to convey. if you haven't seen it, please give it a try #FilmSky
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60 of 96 · most liked firstFour favorite movies of the decade so far, with apologies to After Yang and Banshees of Insherin in particular. Also to all my cool mutuals who I failed to quote for this meme. 📽️
neutral · AI labelView post →There is actually a pretty interesting movie looking at the ethical pitfalls of AI child rearing, for the kids, the parents and the robot caretakers, called After Yang
neutral · AI labelView post →i watched After Yang last night 1. loved it. just a really sweet soft melancholy movie that got swallowed up by covid 2. instantly one of my favorite title sequences in the history of film youtu.be/dRGU2J8BfvA?...
positive · AI labelView post →This is actually part of the plot of the incredibly beautiful & luminous movie "After Yang" (which I would highly recommend.) But irl, yes, this is exactly part of the problem.
neutral · AI labelView post →I’m very excited to share my first academic publication with my film and academic mutuals. My essay, “After Yang, Comes Asian Futurity” is now in the latest issue of Ampersand! Special thanks to @betsywal.bsky.social for feedback. sites.bu.edu/ampersandjou...
neutral · AI labelView post →#Filmsky Anyone seen this? After Yang (2021) Director: Kogonada A touching sci-fi family drama about love and loss
neutral · AI labelView post →A great week for films. After Yang was amazing and Aisha kind of made me angry as it hits hard. Not on this list as it was a big film week were Black Panther and Rye Lane. Both good but I loved Rye Lane. #letterboxd #lastfourwatched
positive · AI labelView post →Random Movie Recommendation Day 57: After Yang (2021) A newer gem. (Should I start tagging #FilmSky on these?)
neutral · AI labelView post →"Arco" *wrecked* us. If you dig the hope-punk of "Nausicaä", the heartbreak of "After Yang", the We Can DO This! tenacity of "Interstellar"... At our screening: 50% Asian (!); a discussion group on climate change etc broke out as the credits started. Spouse: "I'm not crying! You're crying."
neutral · AI labelView post →These are my favorite and least favorite movies from Feb 2025: Fav: After Yang Least fav: The Outwaters With honorable mentions to The Hunt for Red October, One of them days and Kubo and the Two Strings, it was a great movie month
positive · AI labelView post →just finished After Yang (2022). wow, what a beautiful film. shot with such care and stillness. no close-ups force-feeding fetishised technology in a world so far flung in the future, each scene breathes with all the feeling it's meant to convey. if you haven't seen it, please give it a try #FilmSky
positive · AI labelView post →describe your movie taste in 5 films🎬 Dirty Dancing Fire Walk With Me Interstellar After Yang Portrait of a Lady on Fire #FilmSky #Movies #Film
neutral · AI labelView post →#Mickey17 may well be my no. 1 film of all time. Not sure yet, I'll have to re-watch Decision to Leave, The Man Who Wasn't There, Nope, After Yang, and EEAAO, then see Mickey17 again, to be sure. Clever, incisive, funny, heartwarming, and timely. @kermodeandmayo.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →I just watched the movie After Yang. It has me thinking about memories now and connection. I loved it. It did leave me wanting more as it touched upon identity and clones and being a machine. What does it mean to be human and come from a culture? How do you define those things.
positive · AI labelView post →Movie Night Automata continues with AFTER YANG Kogonada's sleeper beloved cult 2021 film with an incredible performance by Colin Farrell. Director and actor Zach Marsh from Filmspeak joins us! 8e/7c/6m/5p @zachmarsh.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAUm... 📽️
neutral · AI labelView post →8 July 2021: Sci-fi drama ‘After Yang’, directed by Kogonada, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. Rotten Tomatoes score: 89%* Letterboxd score: 3.8 (76%) (*Popcornmeter: 68%) #FilmSky #TodayAtTheMovies
neutral · AI labelView post →Never read the book but the trailer for Klara and the Sun looks interesting. It reminds me that more folks should watch After Yang, and how underrated the film is.
neutral · AI labelView post →In director Kogonada's futuristic tale AFTER YANG (2022), the fatal malfunction of a family's android sets the stage for a gentle exploration of identity, memory and loss. Here's our discussion 🎥 #film #scifi www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ikW...
neutral · AI labelView post →One family plants roots in Arkansas, another digs through a dead android’s hard drive. Just your standard existential crisis double feature, when we talk about MINARI (2021, D. Lee Isaac Chung) and AFTER YANG (2022, D. Kogonada) this Friday on Yelling About Movies. #YabtM 🎥 #filmsky #film #movies
neutral · AI labelView post →"Arco" *wrecked* us, #film fam. If you dig the #hopepunk of "Nausicaä", the heartbreak of "After Yang", the We Can DO This! tenacity of "Interstellar"... At our screening: 50% Asian (!); a discussion group on climate change etc broke out as the credits […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
neutral · AI labelView post →if you enjoyed AFTER YANG, I encourage you to check out Kogonada's first feature, COLUMBUS. It's a 10 out of 10 movie. I can't say enough good things about it 📽️ www.kanopy.com/en/cuyahogal...
neutral · AI labelView post →Judging by the average rating, I like A Big Bold Beautiful Journey more than most people. I think I'm kind of a sucker for some of the plot elements, plus it was gorgeous to look at. I like Colin Farrell in subdued mode. He's even better in director Kogonada's last film, After Yang.
neutral · AI labelView post →i’ve watched a lot more movies too. granted a lot of them were mediocre or bad, but there have been some greats in there too (most notably POALOF, now my favorite movie of all time, but also Stalker, Monkey Man, After Yang, Conclave, Bound, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night…)
neutral · AI labelView post →I have looked up a director after watching a tv episode exactly once, and it was Kogonada's episode of The Acolyte. I just found After Yang on Kanopy, am 6 minutes in, and the opening credits are playing over an incredible family dance-off sequence. I am 100% in for wherever this film goes.
neutral · AI labelView post →Superman 2025 is therapy. Probably the most uplifting film I've seen since Paddington 2, After Yang, or maybe Barbie. It'll call on your shit, your inaction, it'll fill you with hope and optimism and a drive to be kinder and more compassionate to stop your inaction. It'll make you F E E L .
neutral · AI labelView post →8. After Yang is probably the most underrated film of the last five years
positive · AI labelView post →Iron Claw i feel like I'm not sure if it's up your alley... just like a really really sad movie that I really connected with After Yang also incredibly sad, but, uh, more poetic in a way I guess? I'd predict you'd like it more than Iron Claw i think
neutral · AI labelView post →Join us for this exciting double bill! We welcome bestselling author Alexander Weinstein ("Saying Goodbye to Yang") to the @unistuttgart.bsky.social for a film screening of "After Yang" on 16 April, and a creative writing workshop on 17 April. All are welcome, it is free to attend.
neutral · AI labelView post →Also, there already a movie that does most of this book. It’s Kogonada’s After Yang.
neutral · AI labelView post →My Nebula-nominated story, “Once Upon a Time at The Oakmont,” is mentioned in this essay in Sci Phi Journal, along with other writers including @deborahldavitt.bsky.social and Sonia Sulaiman. The film After Yang, which I loved, also gets a mention. www.sciphijournal.org/index.php/20...
neutral · AI labelView post →#letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatched I’m starting to reach certain levels of psychotic with AFTER YANG. I love rewatching that movie.
unlabelledView post →Watching After Yang This film could kill babies and I'd still love it after that opening credit sequence
unlabelledView post →The Criterion Channel has a great new AI collection. There are several I have not seen, like JOHNNY MNEMONIC and AFTER YANG. But it's gonna be hard not to rewatch HER and A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (which I think may be among Spielberg's undersung masterpieces). #film
unlabelledView post →I'm always happy to see someone mention AFTER YANG. Such a great movie I probably would have missed if Colin wasn't in it. And on a private life note, anyone who can watch him with (or even just talk about) his son and not see the beauty there has a hole where their heart should be.
unlabelledView post →In director Kogonada's futuristic tale AFTER YANG (2022), the fatal malfunction of a family's android sets the stage for a gentle exploration of identity, memory and loss. Here's our discussion 🎥 #CineMastodon #film #movie #scifi #monly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ikWrCuaA0Q
unlabelledView post →Throwback to 2022 honoring Malea Emma Tjandrawidjaja with the Rising Star Award 🌟 From After Yang to viral performances, her journey shows the power of young talent shaping film, music, and culture. #ACMA #AAPIExcellence
unlabelledView post →I’ve got a code here ⬇️ for a digital copy of After Yang if anyone wants it. Love this movie. Please let me know when someone redeems it.
unlabelledView post →After Yang not a perfect movie but the reveal stirred something so visceral in me. Just absolutely rocked me for its real life parallels
unlabelledView post →The movie that I've thought about the most after watching it from 2025 was A Big Bold Beautiful Journey by Kogonada. He made After Yang, a movie I love very much, and Columbus, which is really good as well.
unlabelledView post →Holy shit, that's it. After Yang is an awesome movie but...it's also hits hard. You will have the emotions.
unlabelledView post →A BIG BOLD BEAUTIFUL JOURNEY is not the worst film of the year, but given how much I loved AFTER YANG, it might be the biggest disappointment. #filmsky chrisicisms.substack.com/p/big-bold-b...
unlabelledView post →When I saw the trailer I thought it looked like a Kogonada movie and then I thought “naaaah, couldn’t be” and I just realized it is. So I’m there and it’s gonna be great if After Yang is any indication.
unlabelledView post →Au, ne odobravam, ali dobro. Evo onda par novijih, neke još nisam ni pogledao, ali budem: Incredible But True, Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes, Lola, Alienoid (čudan film, ali zabavan, ima i nastavak koji ja još nisam), Upgrade, After Yang, The Endless, Journey to the West (ovaj, evo link)
unlabelledView post →After Yang 2021 Slow, reflective, and poetic near-future sci-fi with a little fun thrown in. #filmsky #movies #film #cinema
unlabelledView post →He’s a brilliant actor. Have you ever seen a film called After Yang? Graceful, subtle performance. Rare.
unlabelledView post →Oh my gosh, that is so fresh. If you absolutely have to go back, is there a way to make it a "light" day for yourself? After 2024's spring break, I was terribly sick with COVID while my school was reeling from a horrible tragedy. Ended up showing my students the lovely movie on grief, After Yang.
unlabelledView post →Watched After Yang tonight and it was fantastic. boxd.it/8RHlQ5
unlabelledView post →I watched the movie After Yang for the first time a week or two ago and immediately rewatched it the next day with Jake. It’s incredible, probably my favorite movie I’ve seen this year.
unlabelledView post →I have no earthly idea why I waited this long to watch After Yang…what a beautiful film about loss, memory, and family dynamics.
unlabelledView post →After Yang, a film by Kogonada one of the most visually and emotionally lush films I've seen in quite a while. agree w/ one reviewer that there are flecks of PK Dick here
unlabelledView post →Just watched “After Yang” (2021), maybe the saddest hard scifi film?
unlabelledView post →Finally watched After Yang & thought it was really lovely. Missed this one in 2021. Feel like I haven’t seen anybody talk about it at all. Quiet character driven sci-fi in a way I don’t think I’ve seen done since 2013’s Her. Check it out!
unlabelledView post →www.imdb.com/title/tt8633... After Yang (dir. Kogonada, 2021) A very nice little A24 film with Colin Farrell. The direction is great. The camera work is exceptional, worth watching only because of that. 7/10
unlabelledView post →We loved having @zachmarsh.bsky.social on to discuss the incredible AFTER YANG for Movie Night Automata. Check out the story on our @letterboxd.bsky.social HQ account: 📽️ Episode 190: After Yang with Zach B. Marsh on @letterboxd: boxd.it/N3n
unlabelledView post →New fan of director #Kogonada. Just watched his first film, #Columbus. (He also directed #AfterYang and some episodes of #Pachinko.) The characters talk about their love (or lack of it) for architecture, and share different ways of looking/seeing that are reflected in the film’s quiet, often repeated shots. Lovely. #Cinemastodon
unlabelledView post →#AfterYang #TV #Showtime #Streaming After Yang Official Trailer Sky Cinema https://youtu.be/OO9oWkxdmb8
unlabelledView post →#AfterYang #TV #Streaming The Verge: Creating the warm and cozy sci-fi future of After Yang. "Production designer Alexandra Schaller talks about building a different, greener vision of the future. https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/23/23516723/after-yang-sci-fi-design-interview-alexandra-schaller
unlabelledView post →Movie Pyramid - 09/16/2026: 10/10 Correct Score: 1221 (top 7%) 🟩 🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 www.moviepyramid.io Real good until that last Robbie Movie Snake - 09/16/2026: 9/9 Correct Score: 1285 (top 26%) 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 www.moviesnake.io Oof, even if not enough of you have seen After Yang
unlabelledView post →The (movie) After Yang 1080p (iTunes)(CA) C$4.99 (Drama) (iMDB) 7.1 Cast: Colin Farrell, Jodie Turner-Smith, Justin H. Min, Malea Emma Tjandrawidjaja, Ritchie Coster, Sarita Choudhury
unlabelledView post →The (movie) After Yang (4K) (HD/HDX) (Vudu) (US) for $5 Cast: Colin Farrell, Jodie Turner-Smith, Justin H. Min, Malea Emma Tjandrawidjaja, Ritchie Coster, Sarita Choudhury Genre: (Drama) Trailer & Reviews : www.rottentomatoes.com/m/after_yang
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