All About Lily Chou-Chou

All About Lily Chou-Chou

Pain can take you in prison. The ether can set you free.

2001•2h 26m•7.4/10

DramaCrime

Ratings

🎬TMDb

7.4/10(276)

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.

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Production

Rockwell Eyes, JVC, WOWOW, OORONG-SHA

Language

JA

Status

Released

Release Date

Trailers & Videos

Cast

Hayato Ichihara

Hayato Ichihara

Yūichi Hasumi

Shugo Oshinari

Shugo Oshinari

Shūsuke Hoshino

Yu Aoi

Yu Aoi

Shiori Tsuda

Ayumi Ito

Ayumi Ito

Yōko Kuno

Issey Takahashi

Issey Takahashi

Ikeda Senpai

Ryo Katsuji

Ryo Katsuji

Terawaki Shioske

Takao Osawa

Takao Osawa

Tabito Takao

Kaku Tomohiro

Kaku Tomohiro

Masashi Tadano

Kazusa Matsuda

Sumika Kanzaki

Takahito Hosoyamada

Takahito Hosoyamada

Kentarō Sasaki

Chiyo Abe

Shizuko Hasumi

Izumi Inamori

Izumi Inamori

Izumi Hoshino

Miwako Ichikawa

Miwako Ichikawa

Shimabukuro

Anri Ban

Anri Ban

Noriko Izawa

Takako Baba

Takako Baba

School Nurse

Yoji Tanaka

Yoji Tanaka

Teru Onda

Yoriko Kitahara

Masumi Shōji

Shinji Higuchi

Shinji Higuchi

Otaku

Kaori Fujii

Kaori Fujii

School Nurse

Tetsu Sawaki

Retsuya Inubushi

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