I looked in the movies thread and I didn't see a thread for this (unless I missed it. It is left up to the viewer to figure out which characters in the story are posting under what names. The story of Hoshino and Yuichi is paralleled by messages posted to a Lily Chou-Chou Internet message board.
The whole quagmire comes to a head when Yuichi heads to Tokyo to see a Lily Chou-Chou concert, and encounters the last person he thought would be there. Things become far worse for everyone when Yuichi is assigned to supervising Shiori Tsuda, whom Hoshino has blackmailed into enjo kōsai, and another girl is raped by Hoshino's lackeys after unwittingly offending the school's girl gang. He is ridiculed and coerced into doing Hoshino's dirty work, and finds solace only in the ethereal music Lily Chou-Chou makes. Yuichi, the confused and shy former friend of Hoshino, finds himself sucked into his now-tormentor's gang.
An alternative voice, that of the character Shiori Tsuda, attributes Hoshino's personality change to divorce and family ruin this matches several scenes connecting the decline of Yuichi - who has had to change his name - to divorce. In high school, he takes his place as class bully and shows his newfound power by ruining the lives of his classmates. During a group trip to Okinawa, Hoshino had a traumatic near-death experience and his personality changed from good-natured to dangerous and manipulative. Yuichi, on the other hand, was a quieter boy who fell in love with the music of the odd musician Lily Chou-Chou. He was skilled at kendo, and had a good-looking young mom. In junior high, Hoshino was the best student in school, but was picked on by his classmates.
The film has a discontinuous storyline, starting midway through the story, just after high school begins, then flashes back to junior high and summer vacation, and then skips back to the present.
The film portrays the rough lives of high school children in Japan.Īll About Lily Chou-Chou follows two childhood friends, Shusuke Hoshino and Yuichi Hasumi, from the end of their junior high school run until the beginning of high school school. All About Lily Chou-Chou is a 2001 Japanese film written and directed by Shunji Iwai.
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