Pain can take you in prison. The ether can set you free.
Charts the troubled teenage years of students Yūichi Hasumi and Shūsuke Hoshino, exploring the shifting and complex power dynamics of their relationship against the backdrop of Yūichi's love for the dreamy and abstract music of pop star Lily Chou-Chou.
- Suicide or self-harm
- Harm to children
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Prestige, grave, overwhelming and contemplative.
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- contemplativerelentless
- warmbleak
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Cast
- Hayato IchiharaYūichi Hasumi
- Shugo OshinariShūsuke Hoshino
- Yu AoiShiori Tsuda
- Ayumi ItoYōko Kuno
- Issey TakahashiIkeda-senpai
- Ryo KatsujiShioske Terawaki
- Takao OsawaTabito Takao
- Tomohiro KakuMasashi Tadano
- Kazusa MatsudaSumika Kanzaki
- Takahito HosoyamadaKentarō Sasaki
Crew
- Shunji IwaiDirector
- Shunji IwaiWriter
- Noboru ShinodaDirector of Photography
- Takeshi KobayashiOriginal Music Composer
- Shunji IwaiEditor
- Naoki HashimotoProducer
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