All About Lilly Chou-Chou details
| Format: | 15 DVD |
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| Starring: | Yu Aoi, Miwako Ichikawa, Shugo Oshinari, Izumi Inamori, Hayato Ichihara, Aymi Ito, Takao Osawa |
| Director: | Shunji Iwai |
| Genres: | Drama - General, Gay/Lesbian - General, World Cinema - Japanese |
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All About Lilly Chou-Chou |
15 Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 2 hours 26 minutes |
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| Rental release: | Currently unavailable |
| Main languages: | Japanese |
| Subtitles: | English |
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An intriguing film
By wuku from London , 29 Feb 2004[Highly rated reviewer]
I hadn't heard anything about this movie before I watched it so I didn’t have any expectations but I thought it was excellent. The way the story line develops over a chat room is quite unique and it kept me both intrigued and riveted. Essentially, it is a story about two school boys and their way of dealing with being bullied - one turns into being a sadistic bully himself and the other uses music and a chat room as a means of escape. While to the outside world the two boys seem a world apart, they both struggle to answer the same adolescent questions about who they are and what they want.- Was this review helpful to you?
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(29)hair does it
By juradino (811 reviews) from London , 08 Dec 2011Machismo at its best. Out in the field it seems like girls may be game but then... Beautiful photography and smell of reality make it interesting. I got poppy seeds and sickness but such is life. Great classical soundtrack.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Different and Interesting:)
By meganzoe (5 reviews) from England , 11 Oct 2011This film was different and unexpecting. I really enjoyed the overall story and layout of the film. I was really impressed by Shûgo Oshinari and his acting in this, I recognized him from Battle Royale 2 (which was shockingly disappointing to the first film, if only Kenji Fukasaku did die half way through. R.I.P). This film is really clever in the ways they use technology and depicts teenagers. Not for people who want a film they can just switch off too and daydream.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Watch it and weep
By RhodWindsor (12 reviews) from London , 17 May 2011This is another one that made me cry. Really sweet (in a nice way) and sensitive. Really well acted and the cinematography is great.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Kept my attention
By a customer from Kirkcaldy , 20 Oct 2009There was something frightening about this film, the apparent absence of adult interest in what was going on in the lives of their children. Maybe it highlights the problem of the barrier between these generations and disasters this can leads to. The story though basically a simple one of repressed love and gang type peer pressure always held my attention due to the strength of the acting and it's maze like meandering to it's conclusion. Morality was always on a knife edge, is it not always the case in these coming of age films. I thought the film was well directed and beautifully shot. The soundtrack was strong as it had to be, being an intrinsic part of the story. Now to my one complaint, and it was a major one for me, the annoying way the 'computer forum posts' were shown. For me it was badly done and irritatingly invasive and stylised to the point that it almost made me give up. Fortunately this petered out as the film progressed.- Was this review helpful to you?
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By a customer from Folkestone , 06 Aug 2009Somewhere in the middle there is a good story, well shot and intriguing. The only trouble is that you have to fight the continuous interruption by an appalling chat room conversation between people that seem to have no connection the rest of the film. Where other films handle this aspect with an email-looking screen, this one rapidly flashes between a black screen containing a couple of words and a white screen containing computerspeak telling us that something is 'reloading'. The film needs a health warning for those suffering epilepsy - I got a headache from watching and RSI in the thumb from over use of the fast-forward button- Was this review helpful to you?
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