杨德昌 (Yáng Déchāng) · Edward Yang (Taiwanese film director)

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1 Edward Yang (Taiwanese film director)

About Edward Yang

1947–2007 · 导演 director

Director of the Taiwan New Cinema of the 1980s, with 侯孝贤. His films about life in Taipei include 牯岭街少年杀人事件 (A Brighter Summer Day) and 一一, which won him best director at Cannes.

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HSK 6

杨德昌的《一一》被公认为华语电影的杰作。

Yáng Déchāng de 《 Yīyī 》 bèi gōngrèn wéi Huáyǔ diànyǐng de jiézuò.

Edward Yang's 'Yi Yi' is widely recognized as a masterpiece of Chinese-language cinema.

HSK 7-9

我们一起看了杨德昌的《牯岭街少年杀人事件》。

Wǒmen yìqǐ kàn le Yáng Déchāng de 《 Gǔ lǐng jiē Shàonián Shārén Shìjiàn 》.

We watched Edward Yang's 'A Brighter Summer Day' together.

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culture

The title 《一一》 means 'one by one'; written top to bottom, its two strokes also look like 二 'two', and the English title is 'A One and a Two'. Before film, Yang worked as a computer engineer in Seattle.