both are directed by Shunji Iwai so they have similar melancholy feel and aesthetic. main characters share some character traits and themes about loneliness and human connection.
Recommended by tropka
Both had rotten kids who takes wrong decisions and tell stories about teens in they're grow-up paths.
They left you a sad and bitter taste but a litlle of hope too.
Recommended by Ruth
Both are filmed in an experimental impressionistic style with impressive cinematography. The stories largely focus on the pains of youth and how their lives intertwine with schoolmates. Both feature enjo kousai, being a central part of the story in Love & Pop and playing a smaller part in All About Lily Chou Chou.
Recommended by sena3927
It has same theme which is bullying. It also has great cinematography and pacing is somewhat similar to this drama. I won't say if it will have a happy ending, that's for you to find out.
Recommended by realdeal
Our society is full of inequalities and high school is when you start to understand it very well: Girl A is prettier than you, guy B is better at sports, maybe because he inherited the right genes,, C's family provides him/her with all kinds of things you can only dream, D is smarter and will go to best colleges soon, ...
Or maybe you're that A, B, C, D, ... but in any case, at that age, we feel all the differences very well, in one way or another.

The well-made movie, 'Around the Edge of the Stand' has a simple message: All these differences don't matter much if you follow your caring adults' wise words & just positively keep trying (Ganbare!) without showing jealousy or any negative feelings. You'll find happiness, sooner or later.

Now if you like the movie's message, just as a challenge, I'd recommend 'All about Lily Chou Chou', a movie with the opposite message, such that if we consider the former a piece of propaganda, 'All about Lily Chou Chou' will be counterpropaganda!

And this was my coolest movie recommendation, maybe the coolest movie recommendation of all time:)
Recommended by Faarian
similar colour grading

Young Adult Matters and All About Lily Chou Chou are movies similar in many regards. The most obvious example is the themes evident throughout the entirety of the movie. Both movies share the plot of adolescents growing up in a unfit world. Littered with drugs, bullying, betrayal and extreme amounts of violence. However, in the midst of these there are themes of friendship. Other than the themes, there is an obvious correlation with the look of the two, their colour grading. With dark scenes that contrast to extreme light scenes, for example: the entirety of Lily Chou Chou contrasts with the scene of him standing within the grass. To conclude, the points mentioned are how Young Adult Matters relates to All About Lily Chou Chou.
Recommended by Limeloverr
A bitter love story depicting the realities of love between a female college students who earn money as a stand-in girlfriend, and men attracted to them.


~~ Adapted from the manga series “Ashita, Watashi wa Dareka no Kanojo” by Ano Hinaa
Recommended by 73n5h1k015h173
A bitter love story depicting the realities of love between a female college students who earn money as a stand-in girlfriend, and men attracted to them.


~~ Adapted from the manga series “Ashita, Watashi wa Dareka no Kanojo” by Ano Hinaa
Recommended by 73n5h1k015h173
Life isn't easy for a group of high school kids growing up absorbed in Japan's pervasive pop/cyberculture. As they negotiate teen badlands- school bullies, parents from another planet, lurid snapshots of sex and death- these everyday rebels without a cause seek sanctuary, even salvation, through pop star savior Lily Chou-Chou, embracing her sad, dreamy songs and sharing their fears and secrets in Lilyholic chat rooms. Immersed in the speed of everyday troubles, their lives inevitably climax in a fatal collision between real and virtual identities, a final logging-off from innocence.

All About Lily Chou-Chou follows two boys, Shunsuke Hoshino and Yuichi Hasumi, from the start of junior high school when they first meet and into second grade. The film has a discontinuous storyline, starting midway through the story, just after the second term of junior high school begins, then flashes back to the first term and summer vacation, and then skips back to the present.
Recommended by 4chukyunz1302
A bitter love story depicting the realities of love between a female college students who earn money as a stand-in girlfriend, and men attracted to them.


~~ Adapted from the manga "Ashita, Watashi wa Dareka no Kanojo"

Recommended by 73n5h1k015h173
Life isn't easy for a group of high school kids growing up absorbed in Japan's pervasive pop/cyberculture. As they negotiate teen badlands- school bullies, parents from another planet, lurid snapshots of sex and death- these everyday rebels without a cause seek sanctuary, even salvation, through pop star savior Lily Chou-Chou, embracing her sad, dreamy songs and sharing their fears and secrets in Lilyholic chat rooms. Immersed in the speed of everyday troubles, their lives inevitably climax in a fatal collision between real and virtual identities, a final logging-off from innocence.

All About Lily Chou-Chou follows two boys, Shunsuke Hoshino and Yuichi Hasumi, from the start of junior high school when they first meet and into second grade. The film has a discontinuous storyline, starting midway through the story, just after the second term of junior high school begins, then flashes back to the first term and summer vacation, and then skips back to the present.
Recommended by 4chukyunz1302
Life isn't easy for a group of high school kids growing up absorbed in Japan's pervasive pop/cyberculture. As they negotiate teen badlands- school bullies, parents from another planet, lurid snapshots of sex and death- these everyday rebels without a cause seek sanctuary, even salvation, through pop star savior Lily Chou-Chou, embracing her sad, dreamy songs and sharing their fears and secrets in Lilyholic chat rooms. Immersed in the speed of everyday troubles, their lives inevitably climax in a fatal collision between real and virtual identities, a final logging-off from innocence.

All About Lily Chou-Chou follows two boys, Shunsuke Hoshino and Yuichi Hasumi, from the start of junior high school when they first meet and into second grade. The film has a discontinuous storyline, starting midway through the story, just after the second term of junior high school begins, then flashes back to the first term and summer vacation, and then skips back to the present.
Recommended by 4chukyunz1302
Life isn't easy for a group of high school kids growing up absorbed in Japan's pervasive pop/cyberculture. As they negotiate teen badlands- school bullies, parents from another planet, lurid snapshots of sex and death- these everyday rebels without a cause seek sanctuary, even salvation, through pop star savior Lily Chou-Chou, embracing her sad, dreamy songs and sharing their fears and secrets in Lilyholic chat rooms. Immersed in the speed of everyday troubles, their lives inevitably climax in a fatal collision between real and virtual identities, a final logging-off from innocence.

All About Lily Chou-Chou follows two boys, Shunsuke Hoshino and Yuichi Hasumi, from the start of junior high school when they first meet and into second grade. The film has a discontinuous storyline, starting midway through the story, just after the second term of junior high school begins, then flashes back to the first term and summer vacation, and then skips back to the present.
Recommended by 4chukyunz1302
Life isn't easy for a group of high school kids growing up absorbed in Japan's pervasive pop/cyberculture. As they negotiate teen badlands- school bullies, parents from another planet, lurid snapshots of sex and death- these everyday rebels without a cause seek sanctuary, even salvation, through pop star savior Lily Chou-Chou, embracing her sad, dreamy songs and sharing their fears and secrets in Lilyholic chat rooms. Immersed in the speed of everyday troubles, their lives inevitably climax in a fatal collision between real and virtual identities, a final logging-off from innocence.

All About Lily Chou-Chou follows two boys, Shunsuke Hoshino and Yuichi Hasumi, from the start of junior high school when they first meet and into second grade. The film has a discontinuous storyline, starting midway through the story, just after the second term of junior high school begins, then flashes back to the first term and summer vacation, and then skips back to the present.
Recommended by 4chukyunz1302
Life isn't easy for a group of high school kids growing up absorbed in Japan's pervasive pop/cyberculture. As they negotiate teen badlands- school bullies, parents from another planet, lurid snapshots of sex and death- these everyday rebels without a cause seek sanctuary, even salvation, through pop star savior Lily Chou-Chou, embracing her sad, dreamy songs and sharing their fears and secrets in Lilyholic chat rooms. Immersed in the speed of everyday troubles, their lives inevitably climax in a fatal collision between real and virtual identities, a final logging-off from innocence.

All About Lily Chou-Chou follows two boys, Shunsuke Hoshino and Yuichi Hasumi, from the start of junior high school when they first meet and into second grade. The film has a discontinuous storyline, starting midway through the story, just after the second term of junior high school begins, then flashes back to the first term and summer vacation, and then skips back to the present.
Recommended by 4chukyunz1302
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