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.

2001

Drama·Crime

2h 26min

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Top Billed Cast

市原隼人
Yūichi Hasumi
忍成修吾
Shūsuke Hoshino
蒼井優
Shiori Tsuda
伊藤歩
Yōko Kuno
大沢たかお
Tabito Takao
勝地涼
Terawaki Shioske
郭智博
Masashi Tadano
高橋一生
Ikeda Senpai
松田一沙
Sumika Kanzaki
細山田隆人
Kentarō Sasaki
Chiyo Abe
Shizuko Hasumi
稲森いずみ
Izumi Hoshino
市川実和子
Shimabukuro
伴杏里
Noriko Izawa
Takako Baba
School Nurse
田中要次
Teru Onda
Yoriko Kitahara
Masumi Shōji
藤井かほり
School Nurse
沢木哲
Retsuya Inubushi

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