A Taipei family faces personal and moral uncertainty as everyday events test their relationships and sense of purpose.
Direction
Yang's patient framing turns doorways into revelations
Cinematography
Long takes so confident you'll forget they're happening
Writing
An 8-year-old delivers the film's philosophical thesis
Director
Edward Yang
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Often called the definitive film of Taiwan's New Wave, it captures the island's economic anxiety and spiritual searching in the late 1990s.
The 8-year-old Yang-Yang was played by Jonathan Chang, Yang's real-life neighbor—his natural curiosity wasn't acting.
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