Two years ago, Japanese filmmaker Shunji Iwai needed new ideas for a screenplay and novel he was struggling to complete, so he created a Web site devoted to a make-believe pop artist -- a Bjork-like ...

In a small town in rural Japan, 14-year-old Hasumi (Hayato Ichihara) escapes the battering slog of day-by-day adolescent angst by immersing himself in the music of Lily Chou-Chou, an ethereal pop diva ...

Shunji Iwai's "All About Lily Chou-Chou" has very little to do with pop star Lily Chou-Chou (a fictional creation who took on a cult life in Japan as the star of an interactive Internet novel by Iwai) ...

All About Lily Chou-Chou is a terrified walk on the line that separates art and album cover. Its core is a troubled 14-year-old named Yuichi who runs a BBS based on a pop singer named Lily Chou-Chou, ...

The "kids of today"—violent, disaffected, alienated, obsessed with pop culture—are central to a recurring theme in contemporary Japanese cinema, but few imports have addressed it with the ...

"All About Lily Chou-Chou" opens with the clattering sound of a computer keyboard. Japanese characters flash up on the screen as Yuichi (Ichihara) logs onto his "Liliphilia" website to chat to other ...

Adolescent alienation and loneliness were popular themes among Japanese filmmakers at this year's Toronto International Film Festival. Both Kiyoshi Kurosawa's "Pulse" and Shunji Iwai's "All About Lily ...

This is the second E-mail movie by writer-director Shunji Iwai that I’ve seen. The first was Love Letters (1995), his debut feature, and there as well as here we’re shown a lot of E-mails and then ...

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