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#8,764 All-time worldwide
#185 2001 releases

Movie profile

All About Lily Chou-Chou

2001 · 146 min · Rockwell Eyes

Drama Crime
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $6.8M
Budget $1.3M
Gross minus budget $5.5M
ROI 5.42x

Domestic gross

$3.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$3.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$609,923

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where All About Lily Chou-Chou ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.
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All-time worldwide #8,764 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2001 releases #185 Release-year chart position of 250 titles Ranked against movies released in 2001. Primary genre #3,721 Drama of 5,859 titles Genre context based on the first mapped genre on this profile.

Nearby worldwide ranks

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Quick answer

How did All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001) perform at the box office?

High confidence

All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001) earned a reported $6.8M worldwide against a reported $1.3M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $5.5M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 5.42x. In this database it currently ranks #8,764 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #185 among 2001 releases.

Worldwide gross
$6,776,921
Budget
$1,250,000
Gross minus budget
$5,526,921
ROI
5.42x
Source: TMDb. Last updated: Jul 13, 2026. View source Gross-minus-budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and later home/streaming revenue.

Synopsis

Story

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.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Oct 6, 2001
Production
Rockwell Eyes, JVC, WOWOW
Countries
JP

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Studio / production companyRockwell Eyes Release year chart2001 box office Genre chartDrama Genre chartCrime

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2001, All About Lily Chou-Chou is positioned in this dataset as a Drama, Crime title from Rockwell Eyes. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $6.8M, reported production budget is $1.3M, gross-minus-budget is $5.5M, ROI is 5.42x. For comparison, it currently sits #8,764 all-time in the current chart set and #185 among 2001 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

AI-generated contextual summary based on available movie, genre, ranking and box office data. It does not replace official distributor notes or financial reporting.
Data noteGross minus budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and downstream revenue. Domestic, international and opening weekend figures marked as estimated are modelled estimates.