All About Lily Chou-Chou
(2001)
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All About Lily Chou-Chou
(2001)
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Hayato Ichihara | ... | |
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Shûgo Oshinari | ... |
Shusuke Hoshino
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Ayumi Ito | ... |
Yôko Kuno
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Takao Osawa | ... |
Tabito Takao
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Miwako Ichikawa | ... |
Shimabukuro
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Izumi Inamori | ... |
Izumi Hoshino
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Shiori Tsuda
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Kazusa Matsuda | ... |
Sumika Kanzaki
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Ryo Katsuji | ... |
Terawaki Shioske
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Takako Baba | ... |
School girl
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Yuki Ito | ... |
Kamino
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Tomohiro Kaku | ... |
Yuichi's friend
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Hideyuki Kasahara | ... |
Kyota Shimizu
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Masumi Okamura |
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Tetta Sugimoto |
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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. Written by Sujit R. Varma
Lilly Chou-Chou is quite a perculiar movie experience, there is no over riding message, there is no moment to reflect, everything that this movie expresses appears in an instance and then is lost again in the great 'ether'. Throughout I felt lost, not merely due to the disjointed narrative but the pacing and overall premise did not register to me as 'a movie'. Trying to find meaning in Lilly Chou-Chou is similar to attempting to find meaning in ambient electronic music, as we watch the movie we are detached, the story, so to speak, unfolds gracefully but the audience can not relate to the characters, but can only attempt to make sense of it all.
Lilly Chou-Chou is in my opinion a great achievement of movie making, interms of acting, editing, sound mixing and visual flair, fans of cinema are treated to something entirely fresh, but there is the overall feeling of dissatisfaction, I wanted more from the story, I wanted to see more of the characters, more of their lives and their interaction with one another. Yet the director withholds much of this from the viewer, choosing to present the characters relationships with one another in small doses, leaving the visuals and sound to complement the rest. And this I feel is one of the dissapointments of this movie, so much is conveyed yet so little is actually on screen, the watching of this movie requires a level of understanding of emotions, and the viewer is called upon to make sense of it all.
This would be the movies strongest point, and one of its weakneses. I urge anyone with a curiosity for this movie to watch it.