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, his business partners make bad decisions against his advice, and he reconnects with his first love 30 years after he dumped her. His teenage daughter Ting-Ting watches emotions roil in their neighbors’ flat and is experiencing the first stirrings of love. His 8-year-old son Yang-Yang is laconic like his dad and pursues truth with the help of a camera. “Why is the world so different from what we think it is?” asks Ting-Ting.
Release Date: 16 December 2000Runtime: 173 min
Stars:
- Chuan-cheng Tao
- Elaine Jin
- Hsi-Sheng Chen
- Hsin-Yi Tseng
- Issei Ogata
- Jonathan Chang
- Kelly Lee
- Meng-chin 'Adriene' Lin
- Nien-Jen Wu
- Pang Chang Yu
- Ru-Yun Tang
- Shu-shen Hsiao
- Shu-Yuan Hsu
- Su-Yun Ko
- Yung-Feng Lee
Director: Edward Yang
