Yang says that as one advances through middle age, one slows down. Now all he wants to do is make clear, comprehensible movies. For that reason, he gave this movie the Chinese title Yi Yi (lit: One One). "One is a beginning.
楊德昌說，人過中年、腳步慢了，現在只想以簡單的態度來拍一部明瞭的電影，所以就取了一個最簡單的片名《一一》。