All About Lily Chou-Chou
Pain can take you in prison. The ether can set you free.
Charts the troubled teenage years of students Yūichi Hasumi and Shūsuke Hoshino, exploring the shifting and complex power dynamics of their relationship against the backdrop of Yūichi's love for the dreamy and abstract music of pop star Lily Chou-Chou.
- Director
- Shunji Iwai
- Worldwide
- $7M
Who's in it
Cast
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Story overview
What It's About
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Charts the troubled teenage years of students Yūichi Hasumi and Shūsuke Hoshino, exploring the shifting and complex power dynamics of their relationship against the backdrop of Yūichi's love for the dreamy and abstract music of pop star Lily Chou-Chou.
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The numbers
Box Office & Release
All About Lily Chou-Chou returned 5.4× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $1M
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $7M
- Release date
- Oct 6, 2001
- Runtime
- 2h 26m
- MPAA rating
- NR
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan
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