All About Lily Chou Chou

All About Lily ChouChou , Rir Shushu no Subete? is a 2001 Japanese film, written and directed by Shunji Iwai, that portrays the lives of 14yearold students in Japan and the effect the enigmatic singer Lily ChouChous music has on some of them.

In elementary school, Hoshino was one of the best students in school, but was picked on by his classmates. Hoshino and Hasumi meet and become friends when they join the kendo club, and Hoshino invites Hasumi to stay over at his house. Hoshinos family is wealthy in comparison to Hasumis family. Hasumi mistakes Hoshinos attractive young mother for his sister.The kendo club summer camp training is tough, and Hoshino, Hasumi and some other firstgrade boys decide to take a trip to Okinawa. Once there, Hoshino has a traumatic neardeath experience and his personality changes from goodnatured to dangerous and manipulative. Back at school in September for second term, he takes his place as class bully and shows his newfound power by ruining the lives of his classmates. An alternative voice, that of the character Sumika Kanzaki, attributes Hoshinos personality change to the collapse of his familys business and his parents divorce this matches several scenes connecting the decline of Hoshino who has had to change his name to divorce. ........

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