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April Story
Why this pick
Iwai’s gentler, more luminous coming-of-age film shares Lily Chou-Chou’s sensitivity to adolescent interiority, seasonal atmosphere, and the quiet ache of feeling alone among other people.
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MOVIE2001 2h 26m JPN
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
''All About Lily Chou-Chou'' follows two boys, Shūsuke Hoshino and Yūichi Hasumi, from the start of junior middle school when they first meet, and into the eighth 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.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Shugo Oshinari
Shusuke Hoshino
Yu Aoi
Shiori Tsuda
Izumi Inamori
Izumi Hoshino
Ryo Katsuji
Terawaki Shioske
Ayumi Ito
Yôko Kuno
Shinji Higuchi
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