BREAKING NEWS - Death Always Comes in Threes

First Joel Siegel, then Shinji Nakae, and now, I'm extremely sad to report that Taiwanese director Edward Yang, whose last film was the 2000 masterpiece Yi Yi, has passed away after a battle with colon cancer. He was 59 years old.

Now it's a good time to pick up a copy of Yi Yi and find out why Asia just lost a great filmmaker.