Piecing together the strands of the story is not easy, as it flows in a freeform style over us, blended with the gorgeous Debussey piano score that apparently inspires Lily’s music. He befriends fellow student Hoshino (Oshinari), but their friendship shifts and changes as they get involved in petty criminal activity–bullying, robbery, a stolen holiday with friends that turns grisly, and eventually a seedy prostitution ring involving one of their classmates (Aoi). The main topic is bullying, the gang dynamic, the extreme edge of peer pressure that dominates life for the shy Yuichi (Ichihara), who retreats into an online chatroom centred on the Bjork-like popstar Lily Chou-Chou. It centers on a group of teens over the course of about two years, between age 13 and 15, shifting back and forth in time to weave a tapestry of emotions and issues. This astonishingly artistic Japanese drama is full of powerful themes and images, even if it never really makes sense in mainstream cinematic terms.
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