Lily Chou-Chou (リリイ シュシュ, Rirī Shushu) is a Japanese band that debuted in 2000. Initially a fictional band that produced music for the 2001 Shunji Iwai film All About Lily Chou-Chou, the group later reformed in 2010 for the 10th anniversary of the film. Lily Chou-Chou is not a real person, but a fictional character. Biography All About Lily Chou-Chou (リリイ・シュシュのすべて, Rirī Shushu no Subete) is a 2001 Japanese experimental coming-of-age film written, directed and edited by Shunji Iwai, that portrays the lives of 14-year-old students in Japan and the effect the enigmatic singer Lily Chou-Chou 's music has on some of them. [1]
All About Lily ChouChou
Lily Chou-Chou (リリイ シュシュ, Rirī Shushu) is a Japanese band that debuted in 2000. Initially a fictional band that produced music for the 2001 Shunji Iwai film All About Lily Chou-Chou, the group. 2h 26m IMDb RATING 7.5 /10 11K YOUR RATING Rate Crime Drama Music The problematic lives of teenager students for whom the singer Lily Chou-Chou's dreamy music is the only way to escape an alienating, violent and insensitive society. Director Shunji Iwai Writer Shunji Iwai Stars Hayato Ichihara Shûgo Oshinari Ayumi Ito See production info at IMDbPro The story: Lily Chou-Chou is a Japanese pop idol, who must be real, since she appears in concert, but who we never see. Ironically, then, one of her songs consists of repetitions of "I see you and you see me." She is idolized by Yuichi ( Hayato Ichihara ), a student in high school. Yuichi (Hayato Ichihara) is in the 8th grade and he worships Lily Chou-Chou, a Bjork-like chanteuse whose epic music is lush and transcendent. Yuichi only lives for Lily Chou-Chou's big Tokyo.
All About Lily ChouChou (2001) directed by Shunji Iwai • Reviews
What exalts All About Lily Chou-Chou to the level of a breathtaking masterpiece is Lily Cho-Chou herself. Thanks to Salyu the vocalist and Takeshi Kobayashi the writer, the film's use of ethereal music even in clear cases of soundtrack dissonance transforms it into a breathtakingly beautiful theatre of cruelty. Long live Shunji Iwai. Lily Chou-Chou is the only salvation for Yuichi, an anxious 8th grader who sees the enigmatic musician as his goddess. According to online message boards, her ethereal voice carries an invisible substance fans call 'the ether', virtually omnipresent and capable of purifying life from pain. All About Lily Chou-Chou. 2001 | Maturity Rating: 16+ | Drama. Set amid the chaotic world of Japanese cyber-pop culture, an avid fan of pop star Lily Chou-chou becomes dangerously obsessed with his idol. Starring: Hayato Ichihara, Shugo Oshinari, Yu Aoi. Listen to Lily Chou-Chou on Spotify. Artist · 138.9K monthly listeners.
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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 fictional pop star Lily Chou-Chou. Remove Ads Cast Crew Details Genres Releases Released in 2001, writer and director Shunji Iwai's "All About Lily Chou-Chou" 「リリイ• シュシュのすべて」is a masterclass in complex and powerful storytelling, cinematography, and meta-textual messaging that puts on display the formative, introspective, and oftentimes malicious enigma that is the life of youth in Japan.
All About Lily Chou Chou (2001) All About Lily Chou Chou. (2001) Life isn't easy for a group of high school kids growing up absorbed in Japan's pervasive pop/cyberculture. 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. Yuichi is in 8th grade and worships Lily Chou-Chou, a Bjork-like chanteuse whose music is lush and transcendent. Yuichi only lives for Lily Chou-Chou's big Tokyo concert, where lies and violence can be washed away by the presence of his goddess. But fate has yet another obstacle in store for him.
Film Review All About Lily ChouChou (2001) by Shunji Iwai
All About Lily Chou-Chou is a masterclass in complex and powerful storytelling, cinematography, and meta-textual messaging. Music A TOKYO LIVING LEGEND: MEET THE DUKE OF HARAJUKU From Rome, Georgia to Tokyo, the Duke has climbed the ranks to be a key part of today's Japanese music scene. The dark side of Japanese culture is brought to life in Shunji Iwai's All About Lily Chou Chou, a disturbing look at the life of a junior high school student who seeks sanctuary from the bullying of his classmates through the music of a pop-icon, singer Lily Chou Chou.
