All About Lily Chou-Chou

All About Lily Chou-Chou

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

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Release Date

10/6/2001

Runtime

146 mins

Overview

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.

Status

Released

Original Language

Japanese

Budget

$1,250,000

Revenue

$6,776,921

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A harrowing descent into the fractured psychological world of bullied teenagers, where cruelty masks deeper fractures and a pop idol's ethereal music offers the only escape. This is a relentless exploration of how pain reshapes adolescence, told with unflinching intensity.

Mood

MelancholicDread-soakedTenseClaustrophobic

Themes

Coming of ageFriendshipIdentityIsolation

Tone

Bleak

Pacing

Slow-burn

Look

HandheldNaturalistic

Structure

Linear

Heads up

Suicide and self-harmGraphic violenceChild endangerment

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