All About Lily Chou-Chou
2001 · Movie · NR · 146 min · ★ 7.4 · 71% critics
A group of Japanese teens struggles through alienation, shifting friendships, and harsh school pressures, while an enigmatic pop star’s dreamy music becomes a refuge. As online messages and everyday life blur together, their search for identity and belonging turns increasingly intense and unsettling.
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Details
- Original title
- リリイ・シュシュのすべて
- Years
- 2001
- Release date
- 2001-10-06
- Language
- Japanese
- Rated
- NR
- Runtime
- 146 min
- Critic score
- 71/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.4/10 (292 votes)
- Budget
- $1,200,000
About
If you’re drawn to bleak, dreamy stories about teen isolation, online identity, and music as escape, this may resonate, especially if you like Serial Experiments Lain; Not for you if you want a linear, uplifting, or easy watch.
Pros: haunting music; immersive teen mood; striking atmosphere | Cons: disturbing subject matter; fragmented storytelling; very long runtime
Themes
- japan
- bullying
- okinawa
- coming of age
- middle school
- kendo
- junior high school
- japanese junior high schooler
Cast & crew
Hayato Ichihara
as Yūichi Hasumi
Shugo Oshinari
as Shūsuke Hoshino
Yu Aoi
as Shiori Tsuda
Ayumi Ito
as Yōko Kuno
Issey Takahashi
as Ikeda Senpai
Ryo Katsuji
as Terawaki Shioske
Takao Osawa
as Tabito Takao
Kaku Tomohiro
as Masashi Tadano
- KM
Kazusa Matsuda
as Sumika Kanzaki
Takahito Hosoyamada
as Kentarō Sasaki
Directed by Shunji Iwai
Created by Shunji Iwai