Rent A One and a Two (2000)
3.7 of 5 from 193 ratings
2h 53min
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- Synopsis:
Edward Yang's multi-award-winning film looks at several turbulent weeks in the life of the Jian family. Husband and father NJ (Nien-Jen Wu) is a partner in a failing software company, which might just save itself by teaming up with an innovative Japanese games designer. Meanwhile his wife Min-Min (Elaine Jin) has gone off to a mountain retreat with a dubious guru, his teenage daughter Ting Ting (Kelly Lee) is getting her first, rough lessons in love, his young son Yang-Yang (Jonathan Chang) is asking difficult questions and getting into trouble at school - and his mother-in-law has suffered a stroke and lies in a coma. In the middle of all the confusion NJ runs into his childhood sweetheart Sherry, the girl he jilted twenty years earlier, and starts to wonder about starting over. - Actors:
- Nien-Jen Wu, Elaine Jin, Issei Ogata, Kelly Lee, Jonathan Chang, Hsi-Sheng Chen, Su-Yun Ko, Chuan-cheng Tao, Shu-shen Hsiao, Meng-chin 'Adriene' Lin, Pang Chang Yu, Ru-Yun Tang, Shu-Yuan Hsu, Hsin-Yi Tseng, Yung-Feng Lee, Shi-hui Chin, Jie Wu, Kuo-Chih Shu, Leon Dai, Mei-Yun Yu
- Directors:
- Edward Yang
- Producers:
- Shin'ya Kawai, Naoko Tsukeda
- Voiced By:
- Ray Fan
- Writers:
- Edward Yang
- Aka:
- Yi Yi
- Studio:
- ICA
- Genres:
- Drama, Romance
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- Awards:
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 05/03/2018
- Run Time:
- 173 minutes
- Languages:
- Mandarin DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0
- Subtitles:
- English
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.85:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Audio commentary featuring writer-director Edward Yang and Asian-cinema critic Tony Rayns Interview with Rayns about Yang and the New Taiwan Cinema movement
- U.S. Theatrical Trailer
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Reviews (2) of A One and a Two
Quality, realistic domestic drama. - A One and a Two review by Steve
Very long, detailed film tells the story of an ordinary family and how they react to their daily trials. A domestic drama, with a non professional cast in which the director's disinterested camera slowly reveals a rare insight and profundity; and arouses our deep empathy for the fears and hopes of all of the family.
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Engrossing but oh so long - A One and a Two review by AER
A ONE AND A TWO feels like six year's worth of soap opera squashed into 3 hours such is the level of incident. However, Edward Yang's most famous(?) film is engrossing and involving. The life of a large Taiwanese family and its orbiting friends plays out during a period of time when an elderly relative falls into a coma. From the youngest to the eldest we witness rebellion, infidelity, drunkenness, heartbreak, guilt and more. It's an impressive epic.
This was director Edward Yang's last film before he passed away in the mid 2000s. Set in Taipei, Taiwan.
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