Edward Yang
Date of Birth: 06 Nov 1947
Country: Taiwan
Biography: Edward Yang (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.
Total Credits at Criticker: 1 (Actor), 9 (Director), 9 (Writer)
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This film portrays life through portraits of the individual members of a Taiwanese family, each representing a stage from birth to death. (WinStar Cinema)
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.
Based on the director's adolescent memories and focusing on one central male protagonist, an idealistic student who refuses to compromise his moral standards, looks at growing up in Taiwan during the 1960's and the problems of military dictatorship, unemployment and immigration from mainland China.
Lung, a former member of the national Little League team and now operator of an old-style fabric business, is never able to shake a longing for his past glory. One day, he runs into a forme teammate who is now a struggling cab driver. The two talk about old times and they are struck by a sense of loss. Lung is living with his old childhood sweetheart Ah-chin, a westernized professional woman who grew up in a traditional family. (imdb)
A doctor sells out his friend to get a promotion. The doctor's wife (Cora Miao) is not happy. She has an affair with an old boyfriend, and later she leaves her husband because she thinks her husband is having an affair. This marital strife ruins the doctor's promotion. (talkingmoviezzz.com)
The film follows middle-class con men and petty criminals who wind up getting involved with the real underworld, which turns out to be far less romantic than they anticipated. (cinemathequeontario.ca)
In Our Time is a portmanteau film, consisting of four films by four different directors. Along with Sandwich Man (another portmanteau film), it kicked off Taiwanese New Cinema. It represented a bold experiment in film-making, away from escapist romances and action movies - in which competition from Hong Kong was very strong - and towards a truly national cinema, socially, culturally and linguistically aware of the unique Taiwanese situation. (kg)
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.