- Film
The Last Viking
Multiple dates
Country
Japan, Taiwan
Year
2000
Language
English, Mandarin spoken, Dutch subtitles
Actors
Wu Nianzhen, Issei Ogata, Elaine Jin, Li Yongfeng
Director
Edward Yang
Duration
173 min
A compelling and meditative portrait of a middle-class family in Taipei, followed over the course of a year as their lives slowly change. Warm, multi-layered, and enchanting: this intimate epic ranks among the great cinematic masterpieces of the twenty-first century.
Opening with a wedding and ending with a funeral, the film weaves a mosaic of everyday moments between them, captured with rare emotional precision. At its heart is NJ, a weary father caught between professional disappointment and the quiet seduction of childhood sweetheart, while his son Yang-Yang tries to understand the world by photographing it—to capture what others cannot.
Yi Yi now returns to theaters in a brand-new 4K restoration in honor of its 25th anniversary.
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