Yuichi Hasumi, an introverted country boy, is a big fan of Lily Chou-Chou. He has set up an Internet page about Lily Chou and hosts a fan chat room under the screen name philia.
All day long, Yuichi is obsessed with the fantasy world of Lily Chou-Chou's music; sometimes he hangs out with delinquents, stealing from suburban trains and video stores in Utsunomiya Station.
One day, while selling stolen goods at a thrift store with his buddies, Yuichi accidentally discovers an outdated, discarded poster of Lily Chou-Chou - Lily Chou-Chou in Yokohama - and is so taken with it that he struggles to carry it home on his bicycle.
As the TV reports on a teenage burglary on a suburban train, what do Yuichi's parents know that their seemingly by-the-book son is involved?
One of Yuichi's most frequent online interlocutors is a guy named Green Cat, who seems to know everything about Lily Chou-Chou and has the same understanding of music as Yuichi.
After hearing that Lily Chou-Chou had released a new CD, Yuichi couldn't wait to get to the familiar station video store. His father has just given him pocket money, which his partner has taken away, and the penniless Yuichi puts the CD in his book bag without moving, but is caught by the clerk as he sneaks out of the store.
Yuichi's grade-school teacher, Koyamauchi, has been called to collect him from the video store, and she buys Lily Chou-Chou's latest CD, Breathe, for Yuichi. On the way back to school, the young female teacher joins Yuichi and enjoys one of the hit songs, "Araguscu".
Lily Chou-Chou's ethereal, melodic music immediately mesmerized Yuichi; the déjà vu tune of "Araguscu" made him forget his immediate troubles.
The teacher brings Yuichi's mother to the school, who is embarrassed by her son's bad behavior. However, at this moment, the only thing in his mind is Lily Chou-Chou's song, which is both real and unreal. The purple sky filled with mist appears in his mind, which is so mysterious and pure, that belongs to Lily Chou-Chou's sky, and it is the last pure land for Yuichi.
Yuichi rode his bicycle through the green fields, and brought his mother home, the weather is clear, the sun is bright, there is Lily Chou-Chou's day, Yuichi's heart can always fly freely between heaven and earth.
Disaster comes quietly with the night. At night, Yuichi is enjoying music at home when he is suddenly called out by his classmate, Hoshino Shusuke, and is then brutally beaten by a group of his peers, led by Hoshino, who are Yuichi's partners in his daytime crimes. Lily Chou-Chou's new CD is brutally broken in half by Hoshino, and the CD case is stomped to pieces. The beautiful music in Yuichi's mind grinds to a halt. He painfully remembers his friendship with Hoshino, which was truly an unforgettable past.
A year ago, Yuichi and Hoshino went from the same elementary school to the same middle school. At the opening ceremony, Hoshino spoke on behalf of all the new students. At that time, Hoshino looked energetic and full of hope for life. However, his bullying offended the seniors of the school and a group of powerful girls in his class, and he was often mobbed by them collectively. Yuichi always unreservedly support is Hoshino.
Once, Yuichi went to Hoshino's house as a guest, met his beautiful young mother, and was warmly received by the hostess. A poster in Hoshino's bedroom catches Yuichi's attention. Hoshino told him that the poster showed Lily Chou-Chou in Yokohama. That's the first time Yuichi hears the name.
Later Yuichi tells Green Cat in an internet chat that those were rose-colored days.
On the baseball field, Hoshino discovers the girl of his dreams, Kuno, and is captivated by her ethereal and calm demeanor. Kuno, Yuichi, and Hoshino were in the same class, and after the ballgame, they met at the station, with the elegant and arrogant Kuno.
At that time, Hoshino was still a good student in the eyes of his classmates, and was often taunted by a group of bad boys, but he just took it lightly, and a few of his buddies always fought for him.
As the semester passes, Yuichi and the boys have no luck in the fencing tournament, which is highly regarded by the girls. In the summer, the boys decide to take a trip to the island of Okinawa to seek excitement.
Hoshino establishes himself among his buddies with a surprise robbery. With the money from the robbery, they realize their dream of traveling to Okinawa.
The beautiful island of Okinawa is a vacation paradise. The flavorful tour guide lady accompanies a few unsophisticated teenagers, exploring the jungle and playing in the sea during the day; and setting off fireworks on the beach at night to look for sea turtles. The island tour lady played "Aragusuku" on a folk instrument, which mesmerized Hoshino.
During the trip, Hoshino nearly died twice. Once he was attacked by a tuna and suffered minor injuries, and once he drowned and was found just in time by a strange tourist. The local driver tells him that if people bring unlucky things to the island, they will surely be punished here and lose their souls.
Hoshino throws the rest of the money into the ocean, and on the way out of Okinawa, the group witnesses a car crash, victimized by the same lone tourist who saved Hoshino's life. The plane cuts through the pale green sky like a sharp bolt of lightning, and the trip to the island of Okinawa leaves a heavy shadow in everyone's mind.
Yuichi later told Green Cat on the Internet that the world turned gray after that summer vacation.
School starts again, and a shocking change suddenly occurs in Hoshino. He brutally punishes the former class bully in front of the entire class. Witnessing such sophisticated and venomous behavior from Hoshino, Yuichi feels extreme fear. The punished bad boy is forced to drop out of school; and Yuichi, who decides to quit the gang, is beaten mercilessly by Hoshino and the gang.
Yuichi's inner world, completely closed to reality, Lily Chou-Chou has become his only spiritual support, silent Yuichi on the Internet to the green cat and netizens to pour out his heart.
As if driven by some evil force, Hoshino intensifies his revenge on everyone, even the girls in his class. The innocent Tsuda is forced to provide sexual services to adults, and Hoshino destroys the young girl's innocent world. Tsuda is secretly in love with Yuichi, who is quietly accompanying her; while facing the sincere love of another boy, Sasaki, she cannot believe it. In the end, she finally commits suicide by falling off a building with her confusion about the real world.
Meanwhile, Kuno, a girl with outstanding talent, can't escape her fate after being noticed by Hoshino. Yuichi is forced to hand over the girl of his dreams to Hoshino, and the girl is raped by Hoshino's men in an abandoned factory building.
In the classroom, facing the flowers on Tsuda's desk to pay homage to him, and the raped Kuno shaving her own head bald, Yuichi is severely stimulated. He tells Aoki Cat about his inner pain on the internet and asks him to save him and take him away from this chaotic world. Green Cat encourages him to be brave and survive for Lily Chou-Chou.
Alone in the wheat field, Yuichi listens to Lily Chou-Chou's voice, the voice of peace from another world, the place where his and Aoki's souls meet, their final resting place.
Yuichi and Aoki agree to meet at Lily Chou-Chou's concert, with the code word for the meeting being that Aoki is holding a green apple.
The concert is a huge success, and Yuichi suddenly encounters Hoshino in the square. Hoshino forces Yuichi to buy water for himself and gives him a green apple to wait for him while he grabs Yuichi's ticket and enters the hall.
In desperation, Yuichi finds the green cat's name on the green apple, and it turns out that the green cat is Hoshino. Hoshino is now holding up Yuichi's ticket inside the gate, making Yuichi watch as he crumples it up and throws it to the ground.
Yuichi's heart was completely shattered, and he clutched the green apple as he watched the unattainable Lily Chou-Chou concert on the plaza's big screen.
In the crowd of people, there was a loud and sudden cry of surprise from Yuichi: "Lily, Lily is there! She's waving, it's Lily!
As the crowd rushes madly back, Yuichi walks in the opposite direction, squeezing his way to Hoshino's side and then out of the way.
Hoshino falls into a pool of blood.
There is confusion among the people, and Yuichi leaves the venue.
By the railroad tracks, Yuichi pulls out the green apple with the dagger in it.
Yuichi's world is at peace.
In fact, the world has been quiet.
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Eternal Summer
Yu Shouheng (Zhang Xiaoquan) and Kang Zhengxing (Zhang Ruijia) were classmates in elementary school. Shouheng is a mischievous kid, while Zhengxing is the class president who is a good student, so although they sit next door to each other, they don't have much interaction. One day, a new female student was transferred to the class, and the teacher arranged for her to sit in front of Shouheng. During class, Shouheng suddenly took out scissors and cut off a handful of the new student's hair. The teacher was very angry and Shouheng's mother came to the school to explain to the teacher that Shouheng had been diagnosed with ADHD by a doctor when she was a child. The teacher asked Zhengxing to accompany Shouheng, hoping that he could influence Shouheng slowly. Although Zhengxing was not willing to do so, he did not dare to refuse the teacher, so he agreed to do so. The two become "mandated" best friends at school. Stills
When they grew up, they went to the same high school (Hualien High School), and every morning Shouheng would come to Zhengxing's house to wake him up and drive him to school on his bicycle, and the two of them were good friends who did everything together. Shouheng joined the varsity basketball team, and Zhengxing would go to watch him play every time. One day, a new female student, Huijia (played by Yang Qi), is transferred to the school. Since Huijia's hair length exceeds the school's dress code, she is called up to the commanding officer's platform by her teacher during flag-raising and has her hair cut in front of the whole school. After her hair is cut, Hye-ja goes to the top floor to take a break, and Jung-hyung comforts her and trims her hair. At Huijia's suggestion, the two decide to skip school and take the train to Taipei. During the trip, Huijia begins to develop a crush on Zhengxing. They stay in a hotel in Taipei, where they "try" to have sex in the atmosphere of a pornographic movie on TV, but Zhengxing suddenly feels uncomfortable and hides in the restroom. The two of them have a relationship that is starting to change subtly.
Later, at school, Zhengxing and Huijia spend more time together, often chatting, but Shouheng is unhappy that his friend from childhood has been "snatched away". However, Huijia gradually begins to realize that Zhengxing doesn't seem to like her, and after asking Zhengxing, she confirms that Zhengxing likes Shouheng. After discovering Zhengxing's secret, Huijia is very upset, and Zhengxing is also scared to face the fact that he likes Shouheng, and starts to avoid Shouheng deliberately. Afterwards, Shouheng comes to Taipei with the school team for a basketball game, but Zhengxing doesn't come to watch; instead, Huijia comes to the court alone. After the game, Huijia vents her pent-up emotions to Shouheng for the first time in the players' lounge of the gymnasium. Shouheng asks Huijia to go out with him, but Huijia says, "I'll go out with you after you go to college".
Zhang Ruijia's Kang Zhenxing did poorly on the JEE because of his emotional instability and went to the same private university as Shouheng, while planning to take a retake class. Shouheng and Huijia also start dating according to the agreement, but hide it from Zhengxing. Shouheng still comes to wake up Zhengxing in the morning and asks him to do many things with him, but Zhengxing often refuses Shouheng's invitations because of his inability to express his feelings and the pressure of retaking the exams, but Shouheng doesn't notice these changes. One night, Shouheng goes to the retake class to look for Zhengxing, hoping that he can accompany him for a ride. While on the motorcycle, Zhengxing finds a call from Huijia in Shouheng's cell phone, and Shouheng admits that he is dating Huijia. Zheng Xing can't bear this fact after hearing this, he pushes Shou Heng away and gets on the bus alone and leaves in tears.
Afterwards, Shou Heng invites Zheng Xing to attend his department's welcome party. During the party, Zheng Xing has been in a very bad mood, and is reluctant to talk to others, standing in a corner by himself. Instead, he proposes a game of "choose two", in which a person names two options (e.g., "Mom or Dad?" or "Eyebrows or Hair?") and then asks them to choose between the two. or "eyebrows or hair?"). and the other person has to choose which one he or she prefers. In the end, Zhengxing asked Shouheng "Me or Huijia?" because he couldn't think of a question. Shou Heng, at this point, suddenly acts out. Shou Heng, however, suddenly showed an expression of not hearing the question and asked, "What?". Masayuki felt very uncomfortable after asking this question. At that moment, Masayuki saw Huijia coming and told Shouheng that he had to go to the restroom to leave the party venue and said to Shouheng, "It's not like I volunteered to be your friend! I was forced to be your friend since I was a kid!" Shou Heng was very sad to hear this. After hearing this, Shouheng is very upset and rides his bike away from the party in tears, only to be hit by a car and have an accident.
Masayuki gets a call at home and rushes to the police station to pick up Shouheng from the accident. He takes Shouheng back to his home and prepares to go to bed, but Shouheng suddenly initiates sex with Masayuki, leaving Masayuki at a loss for words. Early the next morning, Zheng Xing leaves his home and calls Huijia to ask her to pick up Shou Heng. Shouheng also admits to Huijia that he has become very dependent on Zhengxing since he was a child because of his loneliness, and now that Huijia has also appeared, there is no way for him to lose either one of them.
With the arrival of the winter vacation, Shouheng drives Zhengxing and Huijia, and the three of them return to their hometown in Hualien together. When they arrive at the beach, Shou Heng thinks Zheng Xing is hiding something, and the two of them even fight, during which Huijia is injured and returns to the car alone. Zheng Xing can no longer stand the complicated relationship between the three of them, so he makes up his mind and tells Shou Heng his feelings for him; Shou Heng also tells Zheng Xing how lonely he has been since childhood, and thanks Zheng Xing for his companionship, saying "You are my most important good friend". The two of them are in the car, and Huijia is watching them silently.
When the film was released in Hong Kong, it was rated by the Television and Entertainment Licensing Authority (TELA) as a Grade 3 film (i.e., not to be viewed by persons under the age of 18), which is higher than the Guidance Level (i.e., not to be viewed by children under the age of 12, and not to be viewed by juveniles over 12 and under the age of 18 who need to be tutored by their parents or teachers) rated by Taiwan, and many netizens felt that the rating of the film had something to do with the morality storms in Hong Kong at that time. According to uwants forum users, the movie was rated as a third-grade movie because of the buttock nudity, which was criticized by netizens as not justified.
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Jenny and Juno
Jenny (real name Sun Jae-in, played by Park Min-ji) is a middle-school student from a wealthy family. She is very popular at school because of her good looks and good studies. One day, a boy, Juno (real name Jung Joon Ho, played by Kim Hye Sung), transferred to Jenny's class. Juno is handsome, gentle and elegant, and is also the boys' dream game master, and Jenny hears her heart beating wildly, and she falls in love with Juno at first sight. So the two of them called Jenny and Juno, and became inseparable little couple.
One day, Jenny said to Juno in a trembling voice, "You said, no matter what I become, you will stay by my side, if...if I have a child, what should I do?" Juno was shocked. Seeing Juno's scared look, Jenny couldn't help but get a little angry, she proposed to decide what to do next through arm wrestling, whoever wins listens to who. Jenny's weak wrist and Juno's strong wrist wrapped together, Jenny's tears could not help but flow down, said something from her heart to Juno, Juno was very touched and let Jenny win. Both turned from tears to laughter as they were about to welcome their child ......
However things were far from easy. Jenny began to have weak sweats, her appetite increased and she felt miserable. For the sake of Jenny's health, Juno not only brought fruits from home to peel for Jenny to eat, but also earned money to buy food for Jenny by delivering newspapers early in the morning. Whenever Jenny said she wanted to eat something, even in the middle of the night, Juno would jump up and buy it and send it over. But they faced other troubles. Jenny angry, some girls seem to be unaware of their intimate relationship, to Juno often sends the eye, in addition, Jenny's sister always do not knock on the door to break in, so that Jenny can not carry out fetal education ...... the young couple in such a complicated environment in the lonely struggle, but still can not be wrapped up in fire, Jenny's belly is still the sister found! The first time I saw her, she was in the middle of the night, and she had a baby.
Jenny and Juno's families were in a mess. The two were forced to separate and could not see each other. Juno is worried about Jenny and begs his parents to let him out, but to no avail. Seeing both of them in pain, the friends decide to plan a good play for them. They take the opportunity of visiting Jenny to help her escape, and also prepare for their wedding. The wedding is held in a unique way, with the guests being students in school uniforms, and the bride and groom happily making their wedding vows. Even the child in Jenny's womb seems to be infected by the happy atmosphere, and echoes enthusiastically with joyful fetal movements. But can this love last, and what fate will their child face?
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Guess the Train
The young men who live in the downtrodden town of Raith, near Edinburgh, Scotland, Renton, Pervert Man, Mean, Shit Bully, and others make a living by receiving and defrauding the dole for a living. Their lives are filled with nothing but drugs, alcohol, violence and women, and they are surrounded by either the unemployed and those struggling at the bottom of the social ladder, or by hooligans, drug dealers and punks.
Renton is determined to detoxify, but has repeatedly failed: the pervert is a drug addict who keeps changing women: Mean is a violent maniac, and even his best friend has a hard time with him: Shithead has a good heart, but he is always being hurt by others.
These four companions who grew up together, after a series of events such as the death of a close friend, suffering from AIDS, as well as the loss of love and the death of a family member, decided to join forces to do a big deal, and to use the money from the spoils to satisfy their respective desires, but did not realize that Riden, the friend who was trusted the most, betrayed everyone at the last moment.......
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Flower and Alice
Flower and Alice are a pair of close friends who have grown up together since they were young and study ballet in a dance studio. Alice is bold and outgoing, and takes an active role in pursuing love. The flower is shy by nature, always in the secret crush, and can not even drum up the courage to speak to the favorite boys, all the emotional activities are hidden in the half-underground. While accompanying her best friend Alice to chase and follow the high school boy she fell in love with at first sight, Hana secretly fell in love with Miyamoto, who often traveled with the boy.
Soon, Hana and Alice are both admitted to the high school they've longed for, and Hana manages to join the comedy club of Miyamoto, the senior she's fallen in love with. One day, as usual, Miyamoto, who is obsessed with the study of comedy, walks around with a pamphlet in his hand, but he accidentally bumps into an iron door and faints, and when he wakes up, his mind suddenly goes blank and he experiences a short-lived "memory loss". Hana, who deliberately hangs around within Miyamoto's range of activities every day, was caught in this situation, and in a hurry, without thinking twice, she told Miyamoto, who had just awakened after the fall, a lie that was not too big or too small, but also a disaster that would cause no end of trouble, and said, "I'm your girlfriend, the girl that you used to woo and confess to." Since then, the story began to subtly unfold.
Miyamoto will be under the suspicion, but also had to cooperate with the flower's guidance to start a pseudo-love from the beginning of deception, at the same time, the lie of the snowball is more and more big, the situation is out of control. In the flower of the fabricated nonsense, Alice was also involved in this fictional love affair, became Miyamoto's ex-girlfriend. The plan is not as good as God's plan. Flowers which had thought, this by her responsible for scripting the story of love, the plot did not follow her layout and unfolding, has been playing the role of the ex-girlfriend in which Alice, more and more into the drama, and slowly began to be attracted to Miyamoto, and Miyamoto, but also Alice has a subtle feeling. The love triangle created by Hana is gradually getting out of her control and heading in an interesting direction.
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The Swallowtail Butterfly
During its economic heyday, Japan saw a huge influx of foreign immigrants, who saw it as a gold rush paradise to scrape together They saw it as a gold rush, and named it Gendo. However, the Japanese hated the name and called the immigrants "Genpou".
After the death of her mother, a nameless young girl from Wondo is sent to a prostitute, Kurenaiko. The kind-hearted Guliguo took the girl in temporarily and named her Fengdie after the butterfly tattooed on her chest.
One day, Glico takes Fengdie to a junkyard and automobile repair station called Qingkong. There, Fengyue befriends Fire Feihong, Ah Long, Wolf Lang and others, all of whom are "Yuan Thieves" from different countries. Soon, Feng Die, who often went to "Green Sky" to help, gradually became acquainted with them and became close friends. One night, one of the customers of Guligo tries to rape Fengdie. Aaron, who arrived at the scene, killed him. When handling the dead body, the group is surprised to find that the man's abdomen is hidden in a tape, on which the American song "My Way" is recorded.
The real identity of a secret organization is a killer Wolf Lang, through his partner Chunmei learned that the person killed by the Dragon is a triad member Sudo, and that the tape is hidden in the manufacturing of counterfeit money magnetic induction data. They use the tape to make large quantities of counterfeit banknotes and become rich overnight. While Lung and the others return home, Fei Hung leaves the Green Sky and buys a nightclub in the city, turning it into a live house for Ku Li Guo, who soon signs a contract with a record company due to his outstanding singing talent. After the company interferes, the famous Kurenaiko has to cut ties with Fei Hong and the "Yuan Thieves".
Meanwhile, the owner of the tape, triad leader Liu Liangkui, learns of the tape's whereabouts and sends his men to hunt down Fei Hong and Gu Li Guo. The tape's owner, Liu Liangkui, is informed of the tape's whereabouts and sends his men to kill Fei Hong and Gu Li Guo. The tape was hijacked by Liu Liangkui's men and rushed to "Qingkong" to get the tape. With the help of Chunmei, Wolfgang wisely killed these criminals. After a storm, people returned to the "green sky" to cremated form to say goodbye to Fei Hong, sad Feng Die will be boxes of banknotes also to a torch.
In the end, Feng Die returned the tape to Liu Liangkui, who had met him by chance, and told him that Ku Liguo was his long-lost sister
In 1996, Iwai Shunji, who specializes in shooting low-budget shorts, released this five-million-dollar feature film, The Swallowtail Butterfly, after careful preparations and filming.
Instead of renewing the love fairy tale of Love Letters, Shunji Iwai in Swallowtail Butterfly looks through the eyes of a young girl and fixes his gaze on foreign immigrants. The protagonists of the movie come to Wondo from all corners of the world, forgetting their own names and becoming robbers of the yen and slaves to money. In the film, Iwai Shunji raises the poignant question of whether money is the end of a dream or a means to its realization for people. The initial dream of the robbers in Swallowtail Butterfly is to earn a large sum of money, but when their dream is realized, they find that it is not important compared to the price they have to pay. The Swallowtail Butterfly is also, in a sense, a fairy tale, a fairy tale about modern society. In today's fast-paced economy, Shunji Iwai, with the acumen of an artist, warns every viewer that money is not the meaning of survival.
And those who seem to be dirty and filthy yuan thieves in the movie have the same beautiful dreams, and can sacrifice everything for them. This brings us to the other side of Swallowtail Butterfly: a celebration of the idealism of people who are willing to sacrifice for their dreams, and their acceptance of death.
Although the dark and heavy "Swallowtail Butterfly" is full of tragedy, when we feel sad for the death of Fai-hong, we should also see the "green sky" under the sunshine, at least there Iwai Shunji has left a dream home for people.
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