Edward Yang — Director (10)
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Likely Consequence (1992) IMDb TMDB Douban NeoDB
如果
director: Edward Yang actor: Tai-song Chen / Zianqi Chen …
other title: 如果
Filmed performance of Yang's one-act two-character play which shifts back and forth from comedy to much darker tones as a married couple try to figure out what to do with the body of a man the wife has killed in their kitchen.
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The Wind (2007) Douban
The Wind
director: 杨德昌
other title: 追风
六朝古都开封，皓月当空的夜晚，烟花绽放，人声鼎沸。在人头攒动的茶馆内，美丽少女弹着琵琶吟唱婉转悠扬的调子。一个文弱平凡的少年寄入人群，呆呆张望着台上的姑娘。演出结束后，少年和女孩提着灯笼，并肩走在河边。他们是比邻而居的旧相识，少年假托随哥哥出门应酬，顺道慕名来听女孩的演奏，唯唯诺诺，欲说还羞，对比女孩的坦荡爽朗，男孩是如此内向文弱。他们一路闲聊，全然没注意到屋顶上两个人影连番穿梭，紧紧跟在他们身后。不知不觉，两个孩子来到了恶徒云集的四角亭，争端也由此而起……
本片为华语导演杨德昌未完成的遗作《追风》样片。
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In Our Time (1982) IMDb TMDB Douban NeoDB
光陰的故事
★ 6.7 (6 ratings) director: Edward Yang / 柯一正 … actor: 张艾嘉 / 石安妮 …
other title: 光阴的故事 / 光陰的故事
Four vignettes, each set in different decades from the 1950s through the 1980s, deal with protagonists at different stages of life between childhood and young adulthood.
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Terrorizers (1986)
恐怖份子
★ 8.2 (17 ratings) director: Edward Yang actor: Cora Miao / Lee Lichun …
other title: The Terrorizers / Terrorista …
An uncompromising look into urban life from the eyes of a voyeuristic photographer, a rebellious teenager, and a married couple teetering on the edge of adultery.
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That Day, on the Beach (1983)
海灘的一天
★ 6.9 (7 ratings) director: Edward Yang actor: Sylvia Chang / Terry Hu …
other title: Hai tan de yi tian / 海灘的一天 …
Two friends who haven't seen each other for thirteen years reunite. One is a successful concert pianist just back from a European tour and the other has just started a new business.
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A Confucian Confusion (1994)
獨立時代
★ 8.8 (13 ratings) director: Edward Yang actor: Chen Shiang-Chyi / Joyce Ni Shu-Chun …
other title: Confusion chez Confucius / 獨立時代 …
Over the course of a few days, the paths of a group of young friends, lovers, and acquaintances in Taipei crisscross, prompting them to arrive at realizations about their lives.
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Yi Yi (2000)
一一
★ 9.1 (54 ratings) director: Edward Yang actor: Wu Nien-jen / Issey Ogata …
other title: Yi yi - E uno... e due! / As Coisas Simples da Vida …
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.
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Taipei Story (1985)
青梅竹馬
★ 8.1 (13 ratings) director: Edward Yang actor: Chin Tsai / Hou Hsiao-hsien …
other title: Una historia de Taipei / 青梅竹馬
A young woman urgently seeks to navigate the maze of contemporary Taipei and find a future. She hopes that her boyfriend Lung is the key to the future, but Lung is stuck in a past that combines baseball and traditional loyalty that leads him to squander his nest egg bailing her father out of financial trouble.