Albums include All About Lily Chou-Chou: Original Soundtracks 'Arabesque', (Drama), and.
Lily Chou-Chou is not a person, but a fictional character. discography and songs: Music profile for, born 7 June 1959. The problematic lives of teenager students for whom the singer Lily Chou-Chous dreamy music is the only way to escape an alienating, violent and insensitive society. With Hayato Ichihara, Shûgo Oshinari, Ayumi Itô, Takao Osawa. Initially a fictional band that produced music for the 2001 Shunji Iwai film All About Lily Chou-Chou, the group later reformed in 2010 for the 10th anniversary of the film. All About Lily Chou-Chou: Directed by Shunji Iwai. From chatroom hyperlink text to the budding digital cinematography that enhances the film with a disturbing intimacy, Iwai depicts a culture still dominated by CD sales, anticipation for the incoming gaming consoles and, most importantly, a growing feeling of doom-and-gloom vis-à-vis the new millennium. Shunji Iwai (20002001, lyrics) Lily Chou-Chou (, Rir Shushu) is a Japanese band that debuted in 2000. The defining film of an era (rivaled perhaps only by Hideaki Anno’s LOVE AND POP released a few years prior) ALL ABOUT LILY CHOU-CHOU stands today as an exhilarating chronicle of teen angst and a high point in Shunji Iwai’s career for the ways in which it pushes the medium in new directions and perfectly encapsulates the myriad textures of the late ’90s and early 2000s. With ALL ABOUT LILY CHOU-CHOU, Shunji Iwai’s coming-of-age cinema transitions towards a more clearly defined genre space, complicating expected tropes with a powerful glimpse into darkness and a potent look at a generation’s growing, media-saturated malaise. The teens discover their identities, affirm their passion and the slippery distinction between right and wrong as their embattled psychic landscapes are laid bare on the virtual walls of an Internet chatroom – pulsing to the pangs of a powerful, all-consuming fandom. Lily Chou-Chou’s music becomes a shared gateway into their tumultuous lives over the course of a few, formative years of adolescence. He has a crush on the real-life Yoko, a gifted pianist. Ironically, then, one of her songs consists of repetitions of 'I see you and you see me.' She is idolized by Yuichi (Hayato Ichihara), a student in high school. It tells its story in an almost confusing way, throwing us in the middle of the plot, taking us back to the past, and then starting back in the present. The story: Lily Chou-Chou is a Japanese pop idol, who must be real, since she appears in concert, but who we never see. Among them, the shy Shuichi (Hayato Ichihara) and the bullish Shusuke (Shugo Oshinari). (spoilers, review still in progress) All About Lily Chou-Chou is about two teenage boys who find solace through the lush, dreamy music of Lily Chou-Chou. Mysterious, ethereal dream-pop star Lily Chou-Chou dominates the charts, and the hearts of middle schoolers across Japan.