All About Lily Chou-Chou
by Shunji Iwai
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Actor: Ayumi Ito, Hayato Ichihara, Miwako Ichikawa, Shûgo Oshinari, Takao OsawaDirector: Shunji Iwai
Cinematographer: Noboru Shinoda
Writer: Shunji Iwai
Editor: Yoshiharu Nakagami
Producer: Koko Maeda
Producer: Naoki Hashimoto
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Japanese (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 146 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-02-15
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Homevision
DVD Reviews of All About Lily Chou-Chou
DVD Review: A shamefully inadequate edition of a seminal work of art
Summary: 1 Stars
Let me first state that my one-star rating has nothing to do
with the film itself, it is a rating of the DVD. I truly
consider this film, "Riri Shu-Shu no subete", to be one of the greatest works of art ever created in the cinematic medium. I own the Japanese DVD (both the normal and collector's editions), and the British edition as well. I was happy for American audiences when I saw this was finally coming out on DVD in the USA, but I have changed my mind after finally getting my hands on the disk. It is simply awful. The video transfer is ghastly to behold, and as if this weren't bad enough, the audio is even worse.
What can the DVD producers have been thinking? Here we have a
film that is utterly glorious to behold, and even more glorious
to listen to, a film where the music forms an extremely important
part of the whole, and all we get is this crappy disk? The whole
thing looks like it was filmed through a vaseline-smeared fog
(while the original is digitally crisp and clear like a spring
morning), and the music sounds as if is coming from a battery-driven cassette-player that has seen much better days. It makes me sad to the point of weeping, and very angry inside. It is totally disrespectful to the art and care that went into the making of this amazing film. I hope that the cast and crew will never see or hear this edition - I'm quite sure they would be devastated to see how their work has been ruined by the hands of others.
Fortunately, I have the perfectly produced Japanese disks to go
back to. Even the European edition, although far from perfect, is much, much better than this travesty. I confess that I only bought this, because it contains the Japanese "making-of"
with subtitles, because the Japanese original doesn't have any
subtitles and my Japanese is not much good. I was glad to be
finally able to view the "making-of" feature with the needed
subtitles, but here again there was disappointment: why, oh why,
did they have to cut 20 minutes out of this excellent
documentary? I could hardly believe it, because there is no obvious reason for the cuts.
I am going to try my best to forget that this disk exists. It
really hurts to know that many people are going to see this film
for the first time in this edition. It is a thought that makes
me incredibly sad, because this is a film I dearly love, and would like everyone to see in its full and splendid glory.
The Ether has been polluted.
Here's a translation of the first of Lily's songs in the film,
translated from a Japanese translation of the Okinawan:
ARABESQUE
blue sky
blue sea
birdsong
blue sky
blue sea
birdsong of the south
when the white flowers blossomed
a girl was born
the girl was named after the flower
blue sky
blue sea
birdsong
blue sky
blue sea
birdsong of the south
when the white flowers blossomed
a girl was born
the girl was named after the flower
the girl was named after the flower
blue sky
blue sea
birdsong
when the red flowers blossom
Description of All About Lily Chou-Chou
Yuichi is in the 8th grade and worships Lily Chou-Chou, a Bjork-like chanteuse whose music is lush and transcendent ? the perfect tool to escape the pain and anxiety that fills his brutal life in Japan. At home, Yuichi rarely leaves his room, spending all his time in the chat room of Lily Chou-Chou?s fan website, but little by little, the reality of Yuichi?s offline life becomes unbearable when he is ensnared in a nightmare of teenage prostitution, petty theft, and possible murder. A hauntingly poetic story in the vein of Battle Royale, All About Lily Chou-Chou is a disturbing look at the terror and isolation that characterizes today?s youth of Japan.Bestsellers in DVD
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