Yi Yi
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 and his business partners make bad decisions. From TMDB
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60 of 111 · most liked firstMy husband, @clarkrogers.bsky.social has initiated “date afternoons” so we can have a relaxed afternoon date and still get home for regular animal feeding and evening farm chores. Today it was a movie and dinner. We saw the Taiwanese film “Yi Yi” and then went to a Chinese buffet restaurant.
neutral · AI labelView post →It feels like folks get so caught up in the reputation of Criterion as being for Film Freaks and forget that the actual, like, intent of the collection is to preserve culturally important films in the best quality possible. The whole POINT is getting YI YI and PEEWEE'S BIG ADVENTURE side by side
neutral · AI labelView post →Watch Edward Yang's Yi Yi (a masterpiece!) and try to keep track of how many fucking characters that movie introduces that you're still able to hold perfectly straight in your head. It's gotta be nearly two dozen. A miracle movie.
positive · AI labelView post →Another week of excellent movies mostly watched on airplanes back and forth to El Paso: Yi Yi (2000) Unstoppable (2010) 9 to 5 (1980) Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (2003) #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
neutral · AI labelView post →Edward Yang (with scenes from his film "Yi Yi") - BOTD
neutral · AI labelView post →Only 1 film from the NYT Top 100 Films Of The 21st Century left to go (Amour). Yi Yi was everything I had been told it was. Weirdly emotional watching the Jackass boys doing their thing for possibly the last time. #LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday #Letterboxd #FilmSky #Films #Movies 🍿🎬📽️🎞️
positive · AI labelView post →Edward Yang (with scenes from his film "Yi Yi") - BOTD
neutral · AI labelView post →Affiche française de Yi Yi : formidable film taïwanais de Edward Yang (2000) qui suit la vie quotidienne d’une famille à Taipei et les questionnements de trois générations. #cinémataiwanais #EdwardYang
neutral · AI labelView post →I was so brave today. I didn’t try to talk to anyone about the movie Yi Yi even though I really wanted to. You should be proud.
positive · AI labelView post →Time for another one of my patented BlueSky hot takes: Yi Yi is a good movie!
positive · AI labelView post →10 Non horror movies to get to know me: -‘Anatomy of a Murder’ (‘59) -‘Dune’ (‘84) -‘Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day’ (1972-‘73) -‘Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!’ (‘65) -‘Fatal Instinct’ (1993) -‘Horse Feathers’ (1932) -‘Liquid Sky’ (1982) -‘Patlabor: The Movie’ (1989) -‘Victoria’ (2015) -‘Yi Yi’ (2000)
neutral · AI labelView post →Nearly knocked flat off my feet with emotion when I arrived at the apartment building where my favorite film, Edward Yang’s YI YI, was filmed:
positive · AI labelView post →Currently and first time watching: Yi Yi (2000) dir. Edward Yang #filmsky #drama 📽️
neutral · AI labelView post →Very cool: director Isabel Sandoval has shared this photo where she’s with Tu Duu-Chih, the Taiwanese sound designer of Yi Yi, Millennium Mambo, Happy Together, and In the Mood for Love – he worked with Sandoval on her new film Moonglow. Thanks for all the inspiration during the years, Duu-Chih!
neutral · AI labelView post →I did a Pitch Perfect/Breakfast Club double feature on New Year's Day. PP2 is not as good as the first one. Started my 2026 Criterion Challenge with Yi Yi, a perfect movie. I liked Marty Supreme a lot more before I heard Josh Safdie's thoughts on the ending. #lastfourwatched #letterboxdfriday
positive · AI labelView post →#NowWatching TAIPEI STORY (1985). Director: Edward Yang. Chin Tsai, Hsiao-Hsien Hou. Before Yang rocked International cinema with A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY & YI YI, there was this smaller scale relationship piece. #filmsky 📽 Criterion Collection 879
neutral · AI labelView post →Completely sold-out screening of YI YI, a movie I hadn’t seen in a long while. Still one of the greatest.
positive · AI labelView post →It's not like listening to Bach's St. Matthew Passion makes it hard to listen to anything else, or watching Yi Yi made me skeptical of putting another movie of. But after Absalom, Absalom! it feels like I'm scared of reading anything else b/c unconsciously I feel like it will be a waster of time.
positive · AI labelView post →After a long wait, finally, I got to rewatch the restored version of this Edward Yang film. It's rather a mellow film in comparison to his other great films like A Brighter Summer Day, Yi Yi, and Terrorizers, but I still enjoyed it. It's definitely worth giving a chance if you love Edward Yang.
positive · AI labelView post →Saw the remaster of Yi Yi in the theater for the 25th anniversary and that movie has everything. It's graceful and expansive, uninterested in anything tidy, instead giving us the chaos of life with everything entangled in and rhyming with everything else.
positive · AI labelView post →Finally watched this. I have a bad, masochistic habit, which is that after watching a movie I think is a masterpiece, I will check out the most negative reviews of it on Letterboxd. It's often a shocking experience. However, I'm not going to do that with YI YI because I think my head would explode.
positive · AI labelView post →Happy 26 years of Edward Yang's Yi Yi, I thought that this was an emotionally heartfelt and beautiful movie that really ended up resonating with me in a lot of meaningful ways that I felt something, as it dives deep into the limitations that come with our own perspectives in life through our desires
positive · AI labelView post →Yi Yi by Edward Yang, as that movie really ended up resonating with me in many ways that I felt something, as it tells a very interesting and emotionally heartfelt story that dives deep into the complexities of life and who we are as people and it always inspires me in becoming a better person.
positive · AI labelView post →Me holding up a copy of Edward Yang’s Yi-Yi, “This is a crucial, CRUCIAL film.”
positive · AI labelView post →just watched “Yi Yi” (2000), a movie that took so long to click, but when it did I could immediately recognise it as fucking genius. slowly layering in element after element, structured like a life but with all of life always present, it’s a really great film!!!!
positive · AI labelView post →2000s (00-09) movie draft. You get one in each category. Drama: YI YI Action/Adventure: MIAMI VICE Horror: PULSE Comedy: WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER Romance: TROPICAL MALADY Oscar Winner: SPIRITED AWAY
neutral · AI labelView post →Seen 11 out of 20. If I could recommend just one, it would be Yi Yi. #moviesky
positive · AI labelView post →if you’re in NYC you have two more chances— at admittedly annoying and inconvenient times— to see Yi Yi at Lincoln Center’s movie theater and I urge you so strongly to do so. I’ve never actually heard or seen a whole audience walk out of a movie completely silent before
positive · AI labelView post →The latest #HeroicPurgatory episode covers Edward Yang's Yi Yi (2000). John @jmhimara.bsky.social and Jason @filmnohito.bsky.social analyse the multigenerational family drama and its Taiwanese context to explore why this movie is considered a classic. www.heroic-purgatory.com/2026/05/s6e4...
neutral · AI labelView post →boxd.it/72Bf1 Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice ★★★★½ Heavenly Creatures ★★★★½ You Can Count on Me ★★★★½ I Like Movies ★★★★½ Yi Yi ★★★★★ Joint Security Area ★★★★½ Project Hail Mary ★★★★½ Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie ★★★★★
positive · AI labelView post →Good movie. Check it out if you want an Egyptian version of something like Edward Yang’s Yi Yi (2000). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yac...
unlabelledView post →Movie Review: Classic Taiwanese drama – A One And A Two (Yi Yi) – wp.me/p2mMDp-9aF #Films #Filmsky #Moviesky #Movies 🎬📽️ #review #cinema
unlabelledView post →YI YI is one of the most widely beloved films this century, becoming as influential to DRIVE MY CAR as PAST LIVES. Now out on the much-anticipated physical release of its 4K restoration, I had to write about Yang's kindest and most healing film: letterboxd.com/journal/yi-y...
unlabelledView post →Watched the movie Yi Yi for the first time last night and really enjoyed it! Movies like it are so beautiful to me because you realize how much we have in common as human beings. Love the way it was shot and loved watching the drama of everyday unfold in this family! boxd.it/1vCw
unlabelledView post →What's your favorite movie from each decade of your life? 70s - Killer of Sheep 80s - Love Streams 90s - A Brighter Summer Day 00s - Yi Yi 10s - Zama 20s - Faya Dayi
unlabelledView post →Some cool films I saw for the first time in 2025: Yi Yi Hoosiers Crimson Tide You’re Under Arrest: The Movie Trenque Lauquen Desperado Outpost California Split Shanghai Blues Night on the Galactic Railroad
unlabelledView post →Yi Yi is such a good movie
unlabelledView post →was i trying to check the state of my bun at the office, or paying homage to the seminal Taiwanese new wave film Yi Yi (2000)? #cinephile
unlabelledView post →Just watched the movie Yi Yi, and that is such a lovely, melancholic movie. I definitely need to watch it again.
unlabelledView post →We're closing down the bar with Mr. Ota this week - we've got Yi Yi on the What a Picture podcast!
unlabelledView post →🎬 The Top 4 Drama Movies Released on October 6! What's your fave? 1. Kattradhu Thamizh 2. Yi Yi 3. Dancer in the Dark 4. Blade Runner 2049 99 #Drama movies released today: https://todayinmovies.com/genres/oct-06?sort=rating#drama #FilmSky
unlabelledView post →Yi Yi felt so human and emotionally powerful that I actually resonated with that movie in a lot of meaningful ways that dives deep into the perspectives that come with how our own experiences help to shape us for who we are as people and learning to accept the hard circumstances that come in life.
unlabelledView post →Mates. I have ONE FILM TO GO and I will have completed this whole wild challenge I am PEAKING (also I know some people who know my deal will be like “Hayley how have you only just watched Yi Yi!” I feel the same way about Yi Yi as I do about every Edward Yang film I’ve seen which is: Not good!)
unlabelledView post →Yi Yi, as I think that it's a really masterful and touching movie that actually ended up resonating with me in a lot of impactful ways as it's about wanting to value the importance of the human connection and that expanding upon our deeper understanding comes with viewing other things in life.
unlabelledView post →Favorite* film, each year of the 2000s 2000: Yi Yi 2001: Mulholland Drive 2002: Demonlover 2003: Los Angeles Plays Itself 2004: Nobody Knows 2005: Dave Chapelle’s Block Party 2006: Children of Men 2007: No Country for Old Men 2008: WALL-E 2009: Mother *favorite /= best What are yours? #Filmsky📽️🎞️🎬
unlabelledView post →Yi Yi 📽️ "I want to tell people things they don't know." fucking crazy to watch two movies from the same director and both are actual 10/10s for me. a quiet movie following the ordinary life of one family following their own narratives. simultaneously intimate and epic. tender yet saddening
unlabelledView post →What's your favourite movie from each decade of your life? '80s - The Verdict '90s - Bottle Rocket '00s - Yi Yi '10s - The Dark Knight Rises '20s - Licorice Pizza
unlabelledView post →Thing about it is it’s actually a self fulfilling prophecy, it’s not that our attention spans are all shot beyond repair, I can happily sit through a three hour movie like Yi Yi or Drive My Car but if a movie starts treating me like I can’t follow basic visual info I start reaching for my phone!!
unlabelledView post →Here's a shot from 'That Day, On The Beach' by Edward Yang - of 'Yi Yi' fame. A more accepted 'real art' type film-maker.
unlabelledView post →Yi Yi (2000) In its exploration of so many fully realized characters, this film feels every bit as vast as a Lord of the Rings installment—rivaled only by Fanny and Alexander. The viewer is placed in the standpoint of God, observing impartially from every angle and distance. (4/5)
unlabelledView post →Yi Yi is a fascinating movie. It’s such a realistic view into the lives of people that feel painfully human. Sometimes dull, and mundane. They don’t add music to make a scene more exciting. You just linger with the natural noise. Three hours long though, but luckily I can have an intermission.
unlabelledView post →I'm not saying length is the only thing I take into account in my movie-going life but why would I spend 162 minutes watching the unknown One Battle After Another if at the same theater I can spend 173 minutes watching the consummate masterpiece Yi Yi
unlabelledView post →I hadn’t seen 4 movies on the NYT’s recent list of the 100 best movies of the 21st century. For my paid subscribers, I’m writing about these movies every Friday in July. First up, Edward Yang’s exquisite drama, YI YI:
unlabelledView post →Yi Yi is due for a rewatch, watch a fucking movie
unlabelledView post →I watched Yi Yi Thanskgiving night and I haven't stopped thinking about it. A gentle, compassionate family epic. Some of the best urban landscape photography in a movie to heartbreaking effect. One of my favorite discoveries of the year.
unlabelledView post →It's just a pitch-perfect movie, and somehow a breezy 3 hour watch. Everything I've seen from Yang is great but Yi Yi is on another level for me
unlabelledView post →In the Mood For Love (like Yi Yi, my all-time favorite film) sits in ambiguity, yearning, and incomplete-at-best resolution while things keep inexorably moving forward in a way that feels truer to life than movies almost ever accomplish.
unlabelledView post →there's a moment near the end of Yi Yi where I laughed so hard and it was like the most cathartic amazing laugh I can remember in maybe any movie
unlabelledView post →Really (really!) liked 2/2 Edward Yang films I've seen, Yi Yi became probably my favorite film if I had to pick one. What else should I watch?
unlabelledView post →Fave film for each yr of 2000s 00: Yi Yi 01: What Time Is It There 02: Panels for the Walls of Heaven 03: Early Monthly Segments 04: Tropical Malady 05: One Way Boogie Woogie/27 Years Later 06: Lights in the Dusk 07: African Booty Scratcher 08: The Beaches of Agnès 09: The Limits of Control #filmsky
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