Director: Shunji Iwai
Release date: October 6, 2001
Language: Japanese
Subtitle: English (Hard-subbed)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Melodrama, Musical, Thriller
Starring:
Ichihara Hayato
Oshinari Shugo
Ito Ayumi
Osawa Takao
Ichikawa Miwako
Inamori Izumi
Synopsis:
Life isn’t easy for a group of high school kids growing up absurd in Japan’s pervasive pop/cyber culture. As they negotiate teen badlands - school bullies, parents from another planet, lurid snapshots of sex and death - these everyday rebels without a cause seek sanctuary, even salvation, through pop star savior Lily Chou-Chou, embracing her sad, dreamy songs and sharing their fears and secrets in Lilyholic chat rooms. Immersed in the speed of everyday troubles, their lives inevitably climax in a fatal collision between real and virtual identities, a final logging-off from innocence.
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Curiosities:
Awards:
Shanghai Film Festival:
Golden Goblet for Best Music
Special Jury Award for Shunji Iwai
Berlin International Film Festival: C.I.C.A.E. Award - Special Mention: Panorama: Shunji Iwai
Yokohama Film Festival: Best New Talent: Takato Hosoyamada (Also for Go).
Trivia:
- Ayumi Ito really shaved her hair for the movie.
- Lily Chou-Chou is a fictional singer. The songs in the movie is sang by a great Japanese singer named Salyu.
- At one point a character describes Hoshino's mom as looking like Izumi Inamori. This is the actress that plays Hoshino's mom.
- The idea of Lily Chou-Chou, the rock star, was inspired by Hong Kong singer and actress, Faye Wong.
- Ayumi Ito spent weeks training on the piano in order to do all of her scenes without a double. She became so obsessed with Debussy's "Arabesque No. 1" that she made it her cell phone ring tone.
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