She has an official website, Lilyholic, which features as a back-story to the film, including news articles and a discography. She was born on December 8, 1980, at 10:50pm, a fact that fans in the film link to the same time of the murder of Beatles' member John Lennon. Lily Chou-Chou is portrayed as the stage name of a solo musician, Keiko Suzuki ( 鈴木圭子, Suzuki Keiko). The group plan to perform a live at the Nakano Sun Plaza Hall on December 15.
The music video for the song was exclusively debuted at MTV Japan on December 1. The group released a digital single, "Ether," on December 8, 2010. On her 2009 tour for Merkmal, she performed "Erotic," "Glide," "Hikōsen," "Kaifuku Suru Kizu," "Sight" and "Tobenai Tsubasa." įor the film's 10th anniversary in 2010, the band reformed as a three-member band featuring guitarist Yukio Nagoshi, however without the direct involvement of Iwai. Some of Salyu's most notable songs have been composed by him, such as " Atarashii Yes," " Corteo (Gyōretsu)," " Platform," " To U" and "Valon." Salyu included the Lily Chou-Chou songs "Hōwa" and "Glide" on her 2008 greatest hits album Merkmal. She began working with Kobayashi as her producer since her debut, and continues to work with him. Salyu debuted as a musician in 2004 with the single " Valon," a collaboration with hip-hop musician Ilmari. In 2003, the Lily Chou-Chou song "Kaifuku Suru Kizu" was featured in the Quentin Tarantino film Kill Bill Vol. The group released their album, Kokyū, in October 2001, a week and a half after the release of the film in Japan.Īfter the release of the film, the group ceased to release music. Three Iwai-directed music videos were produced for the project, "Glide," "Kyōmei (Kūkyo na Ishi)" and "Tobenai Tsubasa." Salyu performed "Kyōmei (Kūkyo na Ishi)" on music shows Hey! Hey! Hey! Music Champ and Music Station in June 2000. In April 2000, Lily Chou-Chou music began to be released, with the single "Glide" and later "Kyōmei (Kūkyo na Ishi)" in June. Iwai supplied the lyrics of two songs to the project, "Arabesque" and "Tobenai Tsubasa." The music was produced as a collaboration between Iwai, Salyu, a musician who had not debuted yet, and Takeshi Kobayashi, a music producer who had previously worked with Iwai on the soundtrack to his 1996 film Swallowtail Butterfly. The only solace Yuichi can find is Lily Chou-Chou’s songs.Lily Chou-Chou as a character was initially created by Shunji Iwai in 2000, as a part of an online novel that was posted on a BBS.
Yuichi wants to stop him but he doesn’t know how to do so and he cannot help assisting Hoshino’s misdeeds. He starts to torment other students including Yuichi. However, during a trip to Okiwana, he experienced some traumatic accidents related to death and his characteristics completely changes. Lily Chou-Chou is an imaginary singer who plays an odd music in this movie, and her fans communicate with each other through internet site named ‘Lily-holic.’ Another fan of Lily Chou-Chou, Shusuke Hoshino, once a friend of Yuichi, was a quiet and sincere student. In the movie, a boy named Yuichi Hasumi loves Lily Chou-Chou’s songs.
Although Iwai chose this movie as his best for now and his style is well reflected, it can be hard for audiences to truly sympathize with the movie because it is lacking consideration of general audiences. In the movie, there is violence, bullying, rapes, suicide, murder, sympathy, confusion, and music. With this material, Shunji Iwai, the director, tried to describe teenagers’ sensibility and anguishes. The theme of this movie is Ijime(bullying). All About Lily Chou-Chou is a Japanese movie made in 2001.