Riri Shushu no subete (2001)

User Rating:

7.7/10   

Director:

Shunji Iwai

Writer:

Shunji Iwai (writer)

Release Date:

6 October 2001 (Japan)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Music | Thriller

Tagline:

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

Plot:

Life isn't easy for a group of high school kids growing up absurd in Japan's pervasive pop/cyber culture...

Plot Keywords:

Japan | 21st Century | Dream Like | Masturbation | Japanese

Awards:

4 wins

Cast

Hayato Ichihara	...	Yûichi Hasumi
Shûgo Oshinari	...	Shusuke Hoshino
Ayumi Ito	...	Yôko Kuno
Takao Osawa	...	Tabito Takao
Miwako Ichikawa	...	Shimabukuro
Izumi Inamori	...	Izumi Hoshino
Yû Aoi	...	Shiori Tsuda
Kazusa Matsuda	...	Sumika Kanzaki
Ryo Katsuji	...	Terawaki Shioske
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Takako Baba	...	School girl
Yuki Ito	...	Kamino
Tomohiro Kaku	...	Yuichi's friend
Hideyuki Kasahara	...	Kyota Shimizu
Yoji Tanaka	...	Teacher

Also Known As:

All About Lily Chou-Chou (International: English title) (USA)
Lily Chou-Chou no subete (Japan) (alternative transliteration)

Runtime:

146 min | 157 min (original cut)

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese | Ryukyuan

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

South Korea:15 | Australia:MA | Singapore:NC-16 | UK:15

Company:

Rockwell Eyes

Trivia:

Lily Chou-Chou is a fictional singer. The songs in the movie is sang by a great Japanese singer named Salyu.

Quotes:

Yuichi's friend: Tsuda. Tsuda Shiori. She's from our school. Of course you know her, she's your classmate.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)

An Amazing peice of Japanese Film

I just watched Lily Chou Chou and I was completely blown away by it. It displayed the struggles of Japanese teens so elegantly. I stayed in Japan for a summer a few years back and attended a high school there. There is a big change going on in Japan's youth today and this is the only time I have seen it portrayed. More films about the real Japan should be made and that's one reason why Iwai is such a good director. He may over do it a little but its what people need to wake up to the struggles in a changing Japan. Americans may think the struggles of being a teen are hard, but Japanese teens have it even harder. Stuck in an extremely difficult academic path without nearly as many choices as we get. That's why escapism through music is so important for them. Its one of their only ways to get out of the social and academic pressures of every day life. The song Glide for me summed up the feeling of the movie. "I wanna be"