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S6E4 - Yi Yi (2000)

Heroic Purgatory: An Asian Cinema Podcast by John Atom, Jason Maher

May 11, 202601:23:14TV & Film

In this episode of Heroic Purgatory: An Asian Cinema Podcast, John and Jason talk about arguably the best Taiwanese film ever made, Edward Yang's Yi Yi. While tackling existential alienation of in the face of modernity,...

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