All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001)

Overview · Where to watch · Cast & crew · Reviews

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.

• Released: 2001-10-06
• Genres: Drama, Crime
• Runtime: 2h 26m
• Status: Released
• TMDB rating: 7.5/10 from 321 votes

Directed by Shunji Iwai.

Top cast

• Hayato Ichihara as Yūichi Hasumi
• Shugo Oshinari as Shūsuke Hoshino
• Yu Aoi as Shiori Tsuda
• Ayumi Ito as Yōko Kuno
• Issey Takahashi as Ikeda-senpai
• Ryo Katsuji as Shioske Terawaki
• Takao Osawa as Tabito Takao
• Tomohiro Kaku as Masashi Tadano
• Kazusa Matsuda as Sumika Kanzaki
• Takahito Hosoyamada as Kentarō Sasaki

Full cast & crew

Where to watch All About Lily Chou-Chou

• United States: stream on Philo, Fandor Amazon Channel, AsianCrush, Metrograph, Cineverse Amazon Channel; watch free on Kanopy, Hoopla, Fawesome, The Roku Channel, Plex, Plex Channel, Cineverse; rent on Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home; buy on Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
• Canada: stream on AsianCrush; watch free on Hoopla, Plex, Cineverse; rent on Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube; buy on Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube

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