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Released
2001 · FILM

All About Lily Chou-Chou

A troubled teen's obsession with a reclusive pop star intensifies as his fragile friendship with a classmate unravels under the pressures of adolescence and emotional turmoil.

“Pain can take you in prison. The ether can set you free.”

Directed by
Shunji Iwai
Written by
Shunji Iwai
Runtime
146 min
Language
JA
CrimeDramaMusic

Synopsis

The film 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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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 16

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Shunji IwaiShot by Noboru ShinodaScored by Takeshi KobayashiDesigned by Noboru Ishida

Box Office

2001 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 5.4× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$6.8M

Budget$1.3M
Worldwide gross$6.8M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • All About Lily Chou-Choude
  • All about Lily Chou-Chouen
  • Todo sobre Lilyes
  • All About Lily Chou-Choufr
  • Lily Chou-Chou no subeteit

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