This film was screened at the 2001 Toronto Film Festival. Things come to a head tragically at a long awaited Lily Chou-Chou concert. Yuichi's suffocating situation at school leads him to consider suicide, something he confesses to "blue cat" - his only confidant. At home he finds sanctuary with his favorite singer Lily Chou-Chou, for whom he has devoted a website called "Liliphilia." One day, he encounters on the net a fellow Lily-phile who goes by the handle "blue cat." As Hoshino's power grows, he demands that Yuichi tail fellow classmate Shiori Tsuda ( Yu Aoi), who he is pimping out to older men. In order to scrape up the cash to meet Hoshino's daily extortion demand, Yuichi resorts to petty theft and shoplifting. At school he is beaten up and harassed by his former friend Hoshino. The film centers on Yuichi Hasumi (Hayato Ichihara), an eighth grader who lives in a sleepy town in rural Japan with his mother, her boyfriend, and the boyfriend's son. He loves his characters, and the picture offers an extensive range of emotional coloration, spiritual tones, shifts that are visually complemented by his able cinematographer, Noboru Shinoda. Wildly popular filmmaker Shunji Iwai breaks a three-year hiatus following his less than successful April Story with this elliptical drama about teenaged alienation, violence, and celebrity. ALL ABOUT LILY CHOU CHOU SUBTITLES ENGLISH YTS MOVIE ''Lily Chou-Chou'' has an effulgence that almost makes you think Mr.
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