Yi Yi

Edward Yang writes and directs this Taiwanese drama which follows the struggles of a middle-class family in Taipei. On the day of his brother-in-law's wedding, software executive NJ Jian (Wu Nien-jen) has a chance meeting with a former sweetheart and begins to wonder what might have been. Meanwhile, his daughter Ting-Ting (Kelly Lee) makes friends with the girl who has moved in next door and develops a crush on a boy at school; his son Yang-Yang (Jonathan Chang) gets into trouble and starts asking difficult questions; his wife Min-Min (Elaine Jin) goes to stay in a mountain retreat with a religious guru; and his mother-in-law collapses and falls into a coma. As events unfold, the Jian family all move to new levels of understanding about the world and their place in it.