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The whole quagmire comes to a head when Yuichi heads to Tokyo to see a Lily Chou-Chou concert. Things become far worse for everyone when Yuichi is assigned to supervising Shiori Tsuda, whom Shusuke has blackmailed into enjo kōsai, and another girl is raped by Shusuke's lackeys after unwittingly offending the school's girl gang. He is ridiculed and coerced into doing Shusuke's dirty work, and finds solace only in the ethereal music Lily Chou-Chou makes, and acting as web editor for his fan website. Yuichi, the confused and shy former friend of Shusuke, finds himself sucked into his now-tormentor's gang. An alternative voice, that of the character Sumika Kanzaki, attributes Shusuke's personality change to the collapse of his family's business and his parent's divorce this matches several scenes connecting the decline of Shusuke – who has had to change his name – to divorce. Back at school in September for second term, he takes his place as class bully and shows his newfound power by ruining the lives of his classmates. Once there, Shusuke has a traumatic near-death experience and his personality changes from good-natured to dangerous and manipulative. The kendo club summer camp training is tough, and Shusuke, Yuichi and some other first-grade boys decide to take a trip to Okinawa. Yuichi mistakes Shusuke's attractive young mother for his sister. Shusuke's family is wealthy in comparison to Yuichi's family. Shusuke and Yuichi meet and become friends when they join the kendo club, and Shusuke invites Yuichi to stay over at his house. In elementary school, Shusuke was one of the best students in school, but was picked on by his classmates. The film has a discontinuous storyline, starting midway through the story, just after the second term of junior high school begins, then flashes back to the first term and summer vacation, and then skips back to the present. Following his debut feature Love Letter (1995), other films include Picnic (1996), Swallowtail (1996) and April Story (MIFF 1999).All About Lily Chou-Chou follows two boys, Shūsuke Hoshino and Yūichi Hasumi, from the start of junior middle school when they first meet, and into the eighth grade. He also becomes implicated in the brutal rape of Yoko Kuno, a heavily teased girl on whom he has a crush.īorn in 1963 in Japan, Shunji Iwai began his career directing music videos and television dramas.
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Hoshino assigns Yuichi to safeguard the money generated from a female classmate, Shiori Tsuda, who is forced to sleep with older men for money. immediately starting to extort money from fellow students including Yuichi. After a school vacation, his best friend Hoshino beats up the school bully then takes his place. In a small rural lapanese town, 14-year-old Yuichi finds hope in a pop star named Lily Chou Chou, managing a website, 'Liliphilia', devoted to her. Classically composed shots are combined with handheld camera-work to create a genuinely kinetic mood reflective of the anxiety of puberty." - Screen International Visually, Iwai's film (which picked up the Special Jury Award at 2002 Shanghai Film Festival) is frequently mesmerising, setting its sordid events against gorgeous natural colours and golden sunlight. "Shunji Iwai achieved international recognition with Love Letter (1995) and April Story (MIFF 1999), and with this quietly devastating, often hauntingly beautiful portrait of troubled youth, he has now proved himself one of Japan's leading talents and boldest voices.