A certain genre : Complete Satoshi Kon

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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