All About Lily Chou Chou - Japanaese Movie

Yuichi

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. 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.

In elementary school, Hoshino was one of the best students in school, but was picked on by his classmates. Hoshino and Hasumi meet and become friends when they join the kendo club, and Hoshino invites Hasumi to stay over at his house. Hoshino's family is wealthy in comparison to Hasumi's family. Hasumi mistakes Hoshino's attractive young mother for his sister.

Hoshino

The kendo club summer camp training is tough, and Hoshino, Hasumi and some other first-grade boys decide to take a trip to Okinawa. Once there, Hoshino has a traumatic near-death experience and his personality changes from good-natured to dangerous and manipulative. 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. 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.

Hasumi, the confused and shy former friend of Hoshino, finds himself sucked into his now-tormentor's 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. 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. 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.

The story of Hoshino and Hasumi is paralleled by messages posted to a Lily Chou-Chou Internet message board which are displayed on screen. 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.

Cast :

• Shugo Oshinari as Shusuke Hoshino (星野修介 Hoshino Shusuke), the best student in school who, after a trip to Okinawa, becomes a bully.
• Hayato Ichihara as Yuichi Hasumi (蓮見雄一 Hasumi Yūichi), Hoshino's former friend who becomes a reluctant member of his gang and will later on be bullied by Hoshino. Yuichi is the leading character in the movie. He admins an online Lily Chou-Chou BBS and is a great fan of the singer.
• Ayumi Ito as Yoko Kuno (久野陽子 Kuno Yōko), a classmate of Yuichi's. A brilliant pianist, she is the envy of a clique of powerful girls, and therefore is also bullied. She is raped by Hoshino's gang and cuts off her hair as a way of avoiding Shiori Tsuda's fate.
• Yû Aoi as Shiori Tsuda (津田詩織 Tsuda Shiori), a classmate of Yuichi who gets blackmailed into enjo kōsai by Hoshino. Yuichi befriends her later on, and introduces her to Lily's music. Near the end of the movie she takes her life.
• Yuki Ito as Kamino, one of the boys in the blue school uniforms at the train station when Kuno is introduced.
• Izumi Inamori as Izumi Hoshino (星野いずみ Hoshino Izumi), Hoshino's mother. It is unknown if she is single. She loves her son very much and welcomes Yuichi with open arms during a junior high sleepover at the Hoshino household. A classmate of Yuichi suggests that this is done to ensure that Yuichi will enjoy being Hoshino's friend.
• Salyu as Lily Chou-Chou, the enigmatic and ethereal singer that Yuichi, Tsuda and others in the film are fans of. She is hardly seen in the film, except on a video screen near the story's end, but her music is heard throughout the movie. She is said by her fans to channel what is called "the Ether", which is not unlike the invisible substance once thought by ancient philosophers to be the field that light travels through. This "ether" can be heard in the calm, melancholy songs she sings.

Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_About_Lily_Chou-Chou

My Opinion : Menurutku Film ini bagus banget, recommend buat ditonton, menceritakan bagaimana sebuah lagu bisa menjadi pelarian. Berkisah mengenai persahabatan, penghianatan, bullying . Gak bakal rugi nonton film ini, banyak hal yang bisa dipetik dari sana !