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Yet, for all its meandering lack of focus, Shunji Iwai's apocalyptic vision of teenage angst creates some fascinating sequences (such as the boys' dreamlike trip to Okinawa, filmed through their digital video camera). Relying on a confusing flashback structure and a ponderous accumulation of incidental detail, "Lily Chou-Chou" is desperately in need of some streamlining. Returning to school, he defeats the school bully and begins a reign of terror that no one, not even Yuichi, is safe from. Yuichi (Hayato Ichihara) is in the 8th grade and he. But after a lavish trip to Okinawa (that's paid for with stolen money) ends with an unexpected death, Hoshino begins to change. For kids around the world, music is often the only salvation when the pain and anxiety of teenage life becomes too much to bear. It doesn't take long to realize who and what Lily Chou Chou symbolizes for the characters- an embodiment of hope and peace.
ALL ABOUT LILY CHOU CHOU TIME MOVIE
Yuichi's turbulent life in secondary school begins as he befriends Hoshino (Oshinari), joins the kendo club, and gets mixed up in the odd spell of petty crime. An overwhelming movie that revolves around high-school 'ijime' culture and how the only sanctuary the characters have from it is music, specifically Lily Chou Chou's. It's the perfect image of writer-director Shunji Iwai's world, a place in which nothing (from bus hijackings, to pop concerts and even school trips) is experienced first hand, because it's always mediated through technology that distances individuals from each other - often with disastrous results. Japanese characters flash up on the screen as Yuichi (Ichihara) logs onto his "Liliphilia" website to chat to other fans of the pop star Lily Chou-Chou. "All About Lily Chou-Chou" opens with the clattering sound of a computer keyboard.