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While Hou Hsiao-Hsien's movies dealt primarily with history or Taiwan's countryside, Yang created films analyzing and revealing the many themes of city and urban life. His first major piece was That Day On The Beach (1983), a modernist narrative reflecting on couples and family.
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- Beverly Hills, California, USA
Apr 9, 2022 · Ranking the catalogue of one of the most consistent filmmakers ever feels like a pointless endeavor, a disservice to such a brilliant output of films. Edward Yang never made a bad movie, leaving us with seven features that all stand as valuable filmmaking of its own.
- 6 A Confucian Confusion
- 5 Mahjong
- 4 That Day, on The Beach
- 3 A Brighter Summer Day
- 2 Taipei Story
- 1 Yi Yi
Released in 1994, Yang’s A Confucian Confusion is a satire set in 1990s Taipei. The city has rapidly industrialized and modernized in recent years, becoming an urban metropolis that fits in with the global landscape in terms of brands and identity. The movie tracks the lives of a group of 20-something-year-olds, who each hold different occupations:...
Mahjong was Yang’s second to the last film before his death, coming out four years beforeYi Yi in 1996. Like A Confucian Confusion, it directly offers commentary about 90s Taiwanese society and life. Mahjong focuses on a small gang led by a man called Red Fish, who is brought together with a Frenchwoman looking for her lost British lover in the hea...
That Day, on the Beachwas Yang’s first film and is considered to potentially be the movie that kicked off the Taiwanese New Wave in the 80s. Sylvia Chang and Terry Hu, both actors young in their careers, star in the leading roles. Over three hours, the film finds two old friends, who have not seen each other in over a decade, reuniting. One of them...
In 2022, A Brighter Summer Day was listed on the Sight & Sound Greatest Films of All Time list with Yang’s film Yi Yi. The epic film opens in 1950s Taiwan, with Chang Chen portraying a middle-class youth who’s expected to have a career like his father’s in government. He is struggling with balancing life and school, and things do not get better onc...
1985’s Taipei Storyis one of the earlier releases of Yang’s career, as a part of the beginnings of the Taiwanese New Wave. Hou Hsiao-hsien and Tsai Chin star as a young couple living in Taipei. Chin portrays a young offer worker that wants to figure out her future in a world that is increasingly becoming more fast-paced, but her boyfriend, Lung, is...
Yi Yi is a work of art, visually compelling and graceful in almost every single scene. It is about the Jian family in Taipei, who live a comfortable, middle-class life in the city. Yi Yi opens with the patriarch running into an old flame, who lives on the other side of the world, and the matriarch’s mother falling into a coma after a stroke. The fa...
Feb 9, 2024 · Before his untimely death in 2007, Edward Yang was arguably the world’s greatest filmmaker: an artist with the patience of a great novelist and the vision of a master painter. Of all the directors to emerge from the New Taiwan Cinema of the 1980s and ‘90s, his star shone brightest.
1. A Brighter Summer Day. 1991 3h 57m Not Rated. 8.2 (13K) Rate. 91 Metascore. Based on a true story, primarily on a conflict between two youth gangs, a 14-year-old boy's girlfriend conflicts with the head of one gang for an unclear reason, until finally the conflict comes to a violent climax.
Jun 29, 2007 · Edward Yang (Chinese: 楊德昌; pinyin: Yáng Déchāng; November 6, 1947 – June 29, 2007) was a Taiwanese filmmaker. Yang, along with fellow auteurs Hou Hsiao-hsien and Tsai Ming-liang, was one of the leading film-makers of the Taiwanese New Wave and Taiwanese Cinema.
Jul 9, 2024 · Edward Yang (1947-2007), a pivotal figure in the Taiwanese New Wave, left an indelible mark on cinema. His filmography, marked by meticulous detail, explores the intricacies of urban life and human relationships. Notable works include his debut "That Day, on the Beach" (1983), a precursor to acclaimed films like "A Brighter Summer Day" (1991 ...
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