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All About Lily Chou-Chou

Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive.

Part of the UCLA Film & Television Archive screening series A Film Series for You: Celebrating Giant Robot’s 30th Anniversary. Learn more at cinema.ucla.edu.

In-person: Giant Robot founder Eric Nakamura.

Japanese writer-director Shunji Iwai’s elliptic take on the internet, fan culture and adolescent trauma has come to feel ever more prescient, ever more powerful as we’ve moved deeper into the millennium. As he navigates the vicissitudes of school and endures the relentless bullying of his former best friend (Shugo Oshinari), 14-year-old Yuichi (Hayato Ichihara) finds solace in the dreamy pop music of Lily Chou-Chou and the mythology he helps construct around her on the message board he moderates. Profiled in Giant Robot Issue #68, Iwai rides emotional swells instead of narrative arcs giving the film an intensely subjective, deeply personal experience. 

2001. DCP, color, in Japanese with English subtitles, 146 min. Director: Shunji Iwai. Screenwriter: Shunji Iwai. With: Hayato Ichihara, Shugo Oshinari, Yu Aoi.

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