3 Movies Starring Ayumi Itè

All About Lily Chou-Chou

All About Lily Chou-Chou

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2001-10-06

Languages:

Japanese, Ryukyuan

Countries:

Japan

Runtime:

146 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.7 (5796 Reviews)

Director:

Shunji Iwai

Fullplot:

Life isn't easy for a group of high school kids growing up absurd in Japan's pervasive pop/cyber culture. As they negotiate teen badlands- school bullies, parents from another planet, lurid snapshots of sex and death- these everyday rebels without a cause seek sanctuary, even salvation, through pop star savior Lily Chou-Chou, embracing her sad, dreamy songs and sharing their fears and secrets in Lilyholic chat rooms. Immersed in the speed of everyday troubles, their lives inevitably climax in a fatal collision between real and virtual identities, a final logging-off from innocence.

Bandage

Bandage

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2010-01-16

Languages:

Japanese

Countries:

Japan

Runtime:

119 min

IMDB Ratings:

(350 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Chika Kan (original story)

Shunji Iwai (screenplay)

Chika Kan (screenplay)

Fullplot:

In the 90s there was a decade of indie rock bands in the japanese culture. Bandage tell a fictional story four boys whose friendship and musical talents are tested in the ever changing world of music industry and their experience in love and hardship in real life.

Tokyo!

Tokyo!

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2008-08-16

Languages:

Japanese, French, English

Countries:

France, Japan, South Korea, Germany

Runtime:

112 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (6738 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Gabrielle Bell (graphic novel "Cecil and Jordan in New York")

Joon-ho Bong

Leos Carax

Michel Gondry

Fullplot:

Tokyo is a city of transitions in three short films. A young woman who finds her life useless experiences a metamorphosis. A disheveled Caucasian emerges from a manhole to face arrest, trial, and execution; he calls himself "Merde" and speaks a language only his look-alike attorney understands. Is he human? A recluse experiences human contact when a pizza-delivery girl faints at his door during an earthquake. He conquers fear to seek her out. A chair, a corpse, a hermit: sources of urban connection?

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