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The creative love child of anime director Satoshi Kon and screenwriter Sadayuki Mura (PERFECT BLUE), MILLENNIUM ACTRESS recounts the legend of an actress named Chiyoko Fujiwara who...
more...mysteriously disappeared during her greatest moment of fame. Via a sweeping backdrop of historical and fictional events that breathlessly span time, Chiyoko relates her saga to a documentary filmmaker named Genya who has tracked the actress down to her remote hideaway. As the story unfolds, Chiyoko's personal history becomes inextricably intertwined with the characters she plays in the movies throughout her long career, all in pursuit of her first love, a political activist painter who left her only with a mysterious key that sets the whole story in motion. Along the way Chiyoko's quest is hampered by an older actress and a mysterious scarfaced man. Luckily, Genya and his sardonic cameraman find themselves swept up in the story also, and come to her rescue several times. It all may sound a little odd, and western audiences not used to anime's occasionally static style may take a few minutes to adjust, but once they do, countless rewards await: brilliant animation, a treasure trove of insight into Japan's history and film industry, and for anyone who's ever loved and lost, an almost assured shedding of many heartfelt tears.





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Epic Anime Masterpiece
Review of Millennium Actress (Animated) (DVD) by DBZKing

Advantages: Story | Looks | Characters
Disadvantages: Not For Children | Story Can Be Complicated For Some

...released into the UK called Millennium Actress which was done in the year 2001 by Director Satoshi Kon whom did Perfect Blue in 1997. Satoshi Kon also wrote the story of the film also, so it is completely his film. It starts off with a space shuttle, and a women going into it, with a man screaming 'you don't have to do this' and that type of thing, then after that the film flashes to these two director, camera people. They are in search of the ... Read review

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Animated homage to Japanese filmmaking
Review of Millennium Actress (Animated) (DVD) by Adziu

Advantages: A clever idea packaged in a breathtakingly beautiful manner
Disadvantages: The music will date quickly

...Naruto Cosplay Event, I’m guessing Millennium Actress’s sales weren’t quite what they were hoped to be. Indeed, it got nothing near the amount of hype Kon Satoshi’s last film, Perfect Blue, managed to receive. And this is a shame, because Millennium Actress is not only an excellent and rather clever little film, but is in fact one of the best animated movies I have ever seen – and I’ve seen a fair few in my time. A documentary filmmaker and his ... Read review

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