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.