Like Distance, its approach is experimental but it taps into Japanese teens' technological dependency much more so than Kore-eda's third fictional film does.

The story's concept first began as a script for a prank, morphed into a novel, developed into an uncompleted screenplay, and then an Internet novel. According to film festival programmer Stephen Cremin, All About Lily Chou-Chou raked in more than three billion yen ($27 million) in Japan, more than twenty times its original budget.

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