All About Lily Chou-Chou 2001 | Boys in movies [BiM]

All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001)

– All About Lily Chou-Chou 2001
– Riri Shushu no subete (original title)
– 2h 26 min. | Crime, Drama, Music | 6 October 2001 (Japan)

Storyline:

Life isn’t easy for a group of high school kids growing up absurd in Japan’s pervasive pop/cyber culture. As they negotiate teen badlands- school bullies, parents from another planet, lurid snapshots of sex and death- these everyday rebels without a cause seek sanctuary, even salvation, through pop star savior Lily Chou-Chou, embracing her sad, dreamy songs and sharing their fears and secrets in Lilyholic chat rooms. Immersed in the speed of everyday troubles, their lives inevitably climax in a fatal collision between real and virtual identities, a final logging-off from innocence.

User review:

This is a film that makes you feel more than it makes you think. Combination of poetic images and magnificent music takes you to a new level of emotion. Iwai used emotional space of each characters as well as physical space very well throughout the entire film, it is hard not to make connection with them. This is what the cinema is all about in my humble opinion. Emotions be felt by images and sound.

Director: Shunji Iwai
Writer: Shunji Iwai
Stars: Hayato Ichihara, Shûgo Oshinari, Ayumi Itô
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese | Ryukyuan
Release Date: 6 October 2001 (Japan)
Also Known As: All About Lily Chou-Chou.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0297721/