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Best movie of this year hands down!

I wanted to but couldn't!

A Major Disappointment

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

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? - Ota NJ is a middle-class father living an ordinary life in his middle-class apartment in Taiwan. he must confront the reasons why he abandoned his ex-lover 30 years ago, while he also struggle to retain his sense of thinking that work is still important. his wife, Min-Min, having trouble in her mind, that she feels an emptiness in her life when she must take care her old mother who suffered a coma. her young daughter, Ting-Ting, feeling guilty about the illness of her old grandma, she cannot sleep every night thinking that she's the one who responsible for it. Yang-Yang, NJ's young son, the boy who always teased by a bunch of young girls at his school, asking an unanswered question: "Daddy, you can't see what I see and I can't see what you see. So how can I know what you see?". I remember the first time i watched a drama about how everyday life was portrayed so beautifully like Magnolia and American Beauty. i was so amazed by its storyline, screenplay, editing and the chemistry between all cast. This movie was way more beautiful in every sector. The cast was superbly drawn, the dialogues were eloquent and purely delivers us a fantastic conversation, the directing was mind blowing, the script was brilliant as well as the screenplay was flawlessly flowing naturally. There's also so many perfectly taken shots and the editing was very good.The very essence of this beautiful masterpiece, from my point of view, is how Edward Yang as a writer and director want us to see, there is a second side to every story, and the perception of that side promises new awakenings. 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 - Ting-Ting

The last time that I gave 5 out of 5 stars is one month ago, that movie is Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928). Since I saw that movie, I couldn't find any full-stars movie. Finally I found!What amazing movie! 2000 is the best year of the cinema, the best of Asian too! We had 2 great Hong Kong movies, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, In the Mood for Love and "Masterpiece" Taiwan, Yi Yi in the same year!Almost people, include Critics, thought that ITMFL and CTHD are the best Chinese- language movies that they've ever seen but I don't think like that. CTHD has the beautiful story, great scene, ITMFL has the great cinematography, great love but both of them have the sad ending that 2 people can't be happy... And Yi Yi, it's not only the movie, it's life, my life and your life. Many relationship that you can see in this movie that you saw or will see in your real life: family, friends, wife-husband, boyfriend-girlfriend, ex boyfriend-ex girlfriend...

Once again misled by the laurels on the DVD cover.I should know by now to avoid films that arty critics rave about. The same with The Tree of Life, totally overrated typical of arty Venice film festival Palme d'or winners. e.g. ,Blue is the warmest colour, The white Ribbon Leave etc; Leave domesticity and art to the French its their forte. But this film all so depressing overlong and meanders. No wonder it was not released in Taiwan. And it means one one not One and two or either some ones name. I am a great fan of Asian films but this one does not even begin to touch The Professors favourite Equation (, The House maid, Ip Man, Assembly, My sassy Girl, Hello stranger, Money not Enough. These films not only entertain but give us a great insight to Asian thinking and society without the depressing slowness of Yi Yi

Featuring in the book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die I was naturally going to watch this Taiwanese film regardless, and I was prepared to sit through a nearly three hour length if it turned out to be good. Basically this film is all about the Taipei family, focusing on three members of the family and their perspectives as they go through various difficult, meaningful and poignant moments in life. These are the middle-aged father N.J. (Nien-Jen Wu), young son Yang-Yang (Jonathan Chang) and teenage daughter Ting-Ting (Kelly Lee), as they start the film with a wedding, and the conclusion is a funeral. So N.J. has a job he is unhappy with, and desires to make a big deal in the Japanese video game industry, and unable to get his partners all on side he finds support from software mogul Ota (Issei Ogata), and he has former lover Sherry (Su-Yun Ko) trying to enter the fray. Son Yang-Yang is having trouble with teachers and stuff at school, and his daughter is in a love triangle with a neighbour and her troubled boyfriend. All this goes on while N.J.'s old mother in law is in a coma, his wife left for Buddhist retreat after having a midlife crisis, and overweight brother in law Ah-Di (Hsi-Sheng Chen) marries a film star and has to deal with extended family. I will be completely honest and say that I did not fully understand everything going on, because it has so many layers and situations to take in and make sense of. Also starring Elaine Jin as Min-Min, Adriene Lin as Li-Li and Pang Chang Yu as Fatty. I think the length was a slight issue for me, and it did add to the fact that I didn't know everything that was going on, but for some really good visual stuff, some interesting dialogue to see and listen to (a little English) and some social realism it is a watchable drama. Very good!