'Everything Everywhere All at Once' with Daniels

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Forhecz Topher

Tv & Film, Arts, Society & Culture

4.6 • 601 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

This week, Lilah interviews Everything Everywhere All at Once directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, also known as Daniels. Their film, starring Michelle Yeoh and Jamie Lee Curtis, has received rave reviews for successfully combining genres from indie comedy to sci-fi to kung fu. Then our colleagues Leo Lewis and Eri Sugiura join us from Tokyo to explain Japan's succession crisis. Small and medium-sized companies employ 80 per cent of people in the country, but many owners’ children do not want to inherit the family business.

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Links and mentions from the episode:

–Everything Everywhere All At Once is out now in the US. It will be released in the UK on Friday 13th May. The trailer is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxN1T1uxQ2g

– You can follow Daniels on Twitter @daniels.

–Leo and Eri’s FT Magazine piece, ‘The pervasive succession crisis threatening Japan’s economy’: https://www.ft.com/content/dc5c19f7-5f4b-4bf5-809a-f46859fb5c39

–Leo Lewis’ piece on Japan’s ageing population and the plunging yen: https://www.ft.com/content/c18281da-3036-4b50-9757-334ad3a82620

–Eri Sugiura on Kyoto’s empty house tax, a story she broke in February about how Japan is dealing with a declining population https://www.ft.com/content/9b87824b-f9a2-4098-8f59-345e174ec736

– Leo is on Twitter at @Urbandirt, and Eri is at @SugiuraEri.

–Select coverage of the war in Ukraine is free to read at https://www.ft.com/freetoread

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0:00.0	Have you seen that new movie Everything Everywhere all at once?
0:05.1	If you haven't, just bear with me as I try to describe it.
0:09.6	Mrs. Wang, are you with us?
0:11.7	I am paying attention.
0:14.8	It's about a Chinese-American family who own a laundromat
0:18.5	and who are bad at communicating with each other.
0:21.3	I can see where this story is going.
0:26.9	It does not look good.
0:31.2	But there are also multiple versions of them that exist in multiple universes.
0:36.4	There's an evil anti-hero, there's a lot of
0:39.0	kung fu. The characters switch easily between Chinese and English. It's complicated.
0:45.2	But this film is killing it at the box office. So far it's brought in more than $35 million
0:51.1	in the U.S. And usually movies draw viewers when they're first released, and then they slowly
0:57.1	peter out.
0:58.1	But this one has actually gained momentum.
1:01.3	This week, it jumped in the box office, and that's six weeks in.
1:04.9	That almost never happens.
1:07.2	So we invited the film's directors, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Shiner, into the studio.
1:12.7	And I asked them how they define their movie.
1:15.9	It's about a Chinese immigrant mother who is trying to survive the chaos of modern life,
1:21.9	who then gets pulled into the multiverse, which, you know, becomes a metaphor for that chaotic life that we're all trying
1:28.4	to move through and exist in.
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