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All About Lily Chou-Chou

Name: All About Lily Chou-Chou
Director: Shunji Iwai
Genre: Drama, Crime
Released: 2001
Rating: 7.5
Cast: Hayato Ichihara, Shugo Oshinari, Yu Aoi, Ayumi Ito, Issey Takahashi

Charts the troubled teenage years of students Yūichi Hasumi and Shūsuke Hoshino, exploring the shifting and complex power dynamics of their relationship against the backdrop of Yūichi's love for the dreamy and abstract music of pop star Lily Chou-Chou.

2001 · Directed by Shunji Iwai · 146 min · Drama · Crime · 33 frames

Tagline

Pain can take you in prison. The ether can set you free.

Crew

Written by: Shunji Iwai
Cinematography: Noboru Shinoda
Edited by: Shunji Iwai
Music: Takeshi Kobayashi
Production design: Noboru Ishida
Produced by: Naoki Hashimoto

Cast

Hayato Ichihara as Yūichi Hasumi
Shugo Oshinari as Shūsuke Hoshino
Yu Aoi as Shiori Tsuda
Ayumi Ito as Yōko Kuno
Issey Takahashi as Ikeda-senpai
Ryo Katsuji as Shioske Terawaki
Takao Osawa as Tabito Takao
Tomohiro Kaku as Masashi Tadano
Kazusa Matsuda as Sumika Kanzaki
Takahito Hosoyamada as Kentarō Sasaki

Production

Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Studios: Rockwell Eyes, JVC, WOWOW, OORONG-SHA
Budget: $1,250,000
Box office: $6,776,921
Themes: suicide, japan, bullying, okinawa, coming of age, middle school, kendo, junior high school, absurd, japanese junior high schooler

More by Shunji Iwai

Hana & Alice — 2004
The Case of Hana & Alice — 2015
Picnic — 1996
Love Letter — 1995
April Story — 1998
Swallowtail Butterfly — 1996

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