Millenium Actress

Sennen joyû

Satoshi Kon

2001

Japan

1h27

Fiction

Col.

Japanese with french subtitles

A movie studio is being torn down. TV interviewer Genya Tachibana has tracked down its most famous star, Chiyoko Fujiwara, who has been a recluse since she left acting some 30 years ago. Tachibana delivers a key to her, and it causes her to reflect on her career; as she's telling the story, Tachibana and his long-suffering cameraman are drawn in. The key was given to her as a teenager by a painter and revolutionary that she helped to escape the police. She becomes an actress because it will make it possible to track him down, and she spends the next several decades acting out that search in various genres and eras.

Cast

Miyoko Shôji, Mami Koyama, Fumiko Orikasa, Shôzô Îzuka, Masaya Onosaka

Screenplay: Satoshi Kon, Sadayuki Murai
Photography: Hisao Shirai
Sound: Masafumi Mima
Music: Susumu Hirasawa
Editing: Takeshi Honda
Production: Genco, Madhouse

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