Anno later cast Iwai as the lead in his second live-action film, Shiki-Jitsu. It is thought that Iwai was inspired to shoot in digital by his friend, the anime and live-action film director Hideaki Anno, who shot his own digital film entitled Love & Pop, in 1998. Iwai was the first Japanese director to use the, at the time, completely new digital video camera, the "24 Progressive" to shoot the film. It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 7, 2001, and opened in Japan on October 6, 2001. Production on the film began in Ashikaga, Tochigi Prefecture on Augand ended on November 28, 2000. (The novel is available on CD-ROM, but only in Japanese.) After the main incident in the novel took place, posting was closed and the second phase of the novel started, about the lives of 14 year olds.
#ALL ABOUT LILY CHOU CHOU TROPES MOVIE#
Readers of the novel were free to post alongside Iwai's characters and interact with each other, indeed this BBS is where some of the content from the movie comes from. On April 1, 2000, Shunji Iwai went live with his internet novel, in the form of a website called Lilyholic, where he posted messages as several characters on the BBS. Until the meeting at the concert, it is left up to the viewer to figure out which characters in the story are posting under what names. The story of Hoshino and Hasumi is paralleled by messages posted to a Lily Chou-Chou Internet message board which are displayed on screen. The whole quagmire comes to a head when Hasumi heads to Tokyo to see a Lily Chou-Chou concert, and encounters the last person he thought would be there. Things become far worse for everyone when Hasumi is assigned to supervising Shiori Tsuda, whom Hoshino has blackmailed into enjo kōsai, and another girl is raped by Hoshino's lackeys after unwittingly offending the school's girl gang. He is ridiculed and coerced into doing Hoshino's dirty work, and finds solace only in the ethereal music Lily Chou-Chou makes, and acting as web editor for his fan website. Hasumi, the confused and shy former friend of Hoshino, finds himself sucked into his now-tormentor's gang. An alternative voice, that of the character Sumika Kanzaki, attributes Hoshino's personality change to the collapse of his family's business and his parent's divorce this matches several scenes connecting the decline of Hoshino – who has had to change his name – to divorce. Back at school in September for second term, he takes his place as class bully and shows his newfound power by ruining the lives of his classmates. Once there, Hoshino has a traumatic near-death experience and his personality changes from good-natured to dangerous and manipulative. The kendo club summer camp training is tough, and Hoshino, Hasumi and some other first-grade boys decide to take a trip to Okinawa. Hasumi mistakes Hoshino's attractive young mother for his sister. Hoshino's family is wealthy in comparison to Hasumi's family. Hoshino and Hasumi meet and become friends when they join the kendo club, and Hoshino invites Hasumi to stay over at his house. In elementary school, Hoshino was one of the best students in school, but was picked on by his classmates. The film has a discontinuous storyline, starting midway through the story, just after the second term of junior high school begins, then flashes back to the first term and summer vacation, and then skips back to the present. All About Lily Chou-Chou follows two boys, Shuusuke Hoshino and Yuichi Hasumi, from the start of junior high school when they first meet, and into second grade.
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