All About Lily Chou-Chou
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- Movie: All about Lily Chou-Chou
- Romaji: Riri Shushu no subete
- Japanese: リリイ・シュシュのすべて
- Director: Shunji Iwai
- Writer: Shunji Iwai
- Producer:
- Cinematographer
- Release Date: October 6, 2001
- Runtime: 146 min.
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
Plot
All About Lily Chou-Chou follows two childhood friends, Shusuke Hoshino and Yuichi Hasumi, from the end of their junior high school run until the beginning of high school. The film has a discontinuous storyline, starting midway through the story, just after high school begins, then flashes back to junior high and summer vacation, and then skips back to the present.
In junior high, Hoshino was the best student in school, but was picked on by his classmates. He was skilled at kendo, and had a good-looking young mom. Yuichi, on the other hand, was a quieter boy who fell in love with the music of the odd musician Lily Chou-Chou. During a group trip to Okinawa, Hoshino had a traumatic near-death experience and his personality changed from good-natured to dangerous and manipulative. In high school, he takes his place as class bully and shows his newfound power by ruining the lives of his classmates. An alternative voice, that of the character Shiori Tsuda, attributes Hoshino's personality change to divorce and family ruin; this matches several scenes connecting the decline of Yuichi - who has had to change his name - to divorce.
Yuichi, the confused and shy former friend of Hoshino, finds himself sucked into his now-tormentor's gang. He is ridiculed and coerced into doing Hoshino's dirty work, and finds solace only in the ethereal music Lily Chou-Chou makes. Things become far worse for everyone when Yuichi is assigned to supervising Shiori Tsuda, whom Hoshino has blackmailed into enjo kōsai, and another girl is raped by Hoshino's lackeys after unwittingly offending the school's girl gang. The whole quagmire comes to a head when Yuichi heads to Tokyo to see a Lily Chou-Chou concert, and encounters the last person he thought would be there.
The story of Hoshino and Yuichi is paralleled by messages posted to a Lily Chou-Chou Internet message board. It is left up to the viewer to figure out which characters in the story are posting under what names.
Notes
- Production on the film began in Ashikaga, Tochigi Prefecture on August 13, 2000 and ended on November 28, 2000.
- On April 1, 20001, Shunji Iwai went live with his internet novel, in the form of a website called Lilyholic, where he posted messages as several characters on the BBS. Readers of the novel were free to post alongside Iwai's characters and interact with each other, indeed this BBS is where some of the content from the movie comes from.
- Premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 7, 2001.
- Soundtrack of Lily Chou-Chou was written and arranged by Takeshi Kobayashi, with vocals by the singer Salyu. The soundtrack also makes heavy use of the classical music of Claude Debussy.
Cast
- Hayato Ichihara - Yûichi Hasumi
- Shugo Oshinari - Shusuke Hoshino
- Ayumi Ito - Yôko Kuno
- Takao Osawa - Tabito Takao
- Miwako Ichikawa - Shimabukuro
- Izumi Inamori - Izumi Hoshino
- Yu Aoi - Shiori Tsuda
- Kazusa Matsuda - Sumika Kanzaki
- Ryo Katsuji - Terawaki Shioske
- Takako Baba - School girl
- Yuki Ito - Kamino
- Tomohiro Kaku - Yuichi's friend
- Hideyuki Kasahara - Kyota Shimizu
- Yoji Tanaka - Teacher
- Kenta Uchino
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sol Says:
Mar 23 2009 2:39 pm
lily chou chou para es la mejor peli que he visto en mi vida soy fa de lily y su musica me fascina ...................lily chou chou es y sera la princesa del eter ...............por cierto ¿quien es la reina del eter?