At 150-minutes the film felt too tiresome and it often felt like I was watching a boring family home video about someone I didn’t really want to know. The film covers Yûichi’s three years in junior high school, and shows how the average student’s work sharply declines the more troubled he becomes. The singer expresses the same pain he feels (Lily’s voice comes from an uncredited singer–also, it is noted that the fictional Bjorklike singer was born the moment Mark David Chapman shot and killed John Lennon). It’s so disturbing to see a sensitive and reclusive adolescent, Yûichi Hasumi (Hayato Ichihara), being bullied and of him not resisting but only trying to tune it all out by passively listening on his Walkman to his favorite singer, the ethereal rocker Lily Chou-Chou. “ The gutsy film didn’t help itself by making it so difficult to follow the story and by being so morose.“ĭirector/writer Shunji Iwai’s “All About Lily Chou-Chou” is one tough film to watch. (director/writer/editor: Shunji Iwai cinematographer: Noboru Shinoda editor: Yoshiharu Nakagami music: Takeshi Kobayashi cast: Hayato Ichihara (Yûichi Hasumi), Shûgo Oshinari (Hoshino), Ayumi Ito (Yoko Kuno), Yu Aoi (Tsuda), Takao Osawa (Tabito Takao), Miwako Ichikawa (Shimabukuro) Runtime: 150 MPAA Rating: NR producer: Naoki Hashimoto Cowboy Pictures 2001-Japan) ALL ABOUT LILY CHOU-CHOU (Riri Shushu no subete)
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