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- Quentin Tarantino used the song "Kaifuku Suru Kizu (Wounds that heal)" from the Lily Chou-Chou soundtrack in Kill Bill, in the scene where the Bride views Hattori Hanzo's sword collection.
- The idea of Lily Chou-Chou the rock star was inspired by Faye Wong.
- Extras at the concert scene were given an index card with extremely detailed information as to the thought process they should be going through during filming. There were hundreds of extras, partly made up of fans of the internet novel who had BBS meet ups during the day. Posters from the BBS are visible in the background of this scene and can be spotted by watching for clues from their posts.
- Ayumi Ito spent weeks training on the piano in order to do all of her scenes without a double. She became so obsessed with Debussy's "Arabesque No. 1" that she made it her cell phone ringtone.
- Originally, in the internet novel, Yuichi and Hoshino belong to the track team, not the kendo team.
- Debussy wrote his famous Children's Corner Suite (1909) for his beloved daughter whom he nicknamed Chou-chou.
- This movie made an impact and is the third highest grossing local film of 2001 in Japan (next to Visitor Q and Spirited Away). This is the highest grossing film made by Shunji Iwai, beating his previous work, Love Letter (1995).
- The movie's original runtime was 157 minutes, but the original print of the 157 minute version no longer exists because it was burned. The extra 11 minutes was composed of extra and intense footages of the rape scene, a scene with Yuichi in the beach (similar to Hoshino's drowning scene) and an extended funeral scene.
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