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DESCRIPTION:Jun 5 - Jul 31\, 2026\nShunji Iwai cut his teeth directing musi
 c videos and short television dramas in the late-80s. In 1996\, Swallowtai
 l Butterfly—a gritty\, kinetic coming-of-age crime story—became his br
 eakthrough hit\, going on to win Most Popular Film at the Japanese Academy
  Awards. (Quentin Tarantino has said that Swallowtail Butterfly “was to 
 Japan what Pulp Fiction was to America.”) Four years later the Neon Gene
 sis Evangelion creator Hideaki Anno cast Iwai in his experimental drama Ri
 tual\, which currently sits as the 198th highest rated film of all-time on
  Letterboxd. Iwai’s All About Lily Chou-Chou\, celebrating its 25th anni
 versary this year\, is perhaps the director’s most enduring (and prescie
 nt) classic. It follows a 14-year-old Web 1.0 music message-board user unh
 ealthily obsessed with Lily Chou-Chou\, a fictional pop star under whose n
 ame a real accompanying soundtrack was made that garnered its own cult fol
 lowing. (Tarantino featured “The Wound That Heals” by Chou-Chou in Kil
 l Bill Vol. 1.) Starting in June\, the Metrograph is screening a series fo
 cused on Iwai—for which he will appear in person—giving New Yorkers th
 e opportunity to dive deep into one of Japan’s most unique auteurs. “I
  believe that the cause of human disaster can be connected with our desire
  for wealth\,” said Iwai in 2016. “I do know that the world is always 
 unfair and stupid and dirty … but beautiful.”
LOCATION:Metrograph\, 7 Ludlow St\, New York\, NY 10002\, United States
SUMMARY:Metrograph: Shunji Iwai
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