"All About Lily Chou-Chou"
2001
Directed by Shunji Iwai

A delicate and startling look at teenage alienation, violence and pop music. Yuichi, a lonely boy with a rough home life who suffers daily at the hands of a school bully, finds solace in the music of Lily Chou-Chou, a melancholy pop singer. Through a website devoted to the singer, Yuichi escapes from his life with other obsessive fans, where he meets another lonely soul like himself. "One of the most haunting, viciously honest coming-of-age films in recent memory" (Ernest Hardy, L.A. Weekly). Japanese with English subtitles.  140 minutes.