Rent Millennium Actress (2001)
3.8 of 5 from 134 ratings
1h 23min
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- Synopsis:
- Thirty years on from her disappearance from the limelight, one question lingers - why did she end her career and vanish at the peak of her acting powers? The truth lies within a key found by Genya many years prior...a key that is far more than just a memento, and instead serves as an emblem of her entire raison d'etre. As Chiyoko recounts her story, so Genya and his cameraman are pulled into a wide-ranging journey through the lens of her films. Interviews and recollections, acting and reality, all blur into the single rich tapestry of a remarkable life.
- Directors:
- Satoshi Kon
- Producers:
- Tarô Maki
- Voiced By:
- Miyoko Shôji, Mami Koyama, Fumiko Orikasa, Shôzô Îzuka, Shouko Tsuda, Hirotaka Suzuoki, Hisako Kyôda, Kan Tokumaru, Tomie Kataoka, Masamichi Satô, Masaya Onosaka, Masane Tsukayama, Kôichi Yamadera, Stephen Bent, Matt Devereaux
- Writers:
- Satoshi Kon, Sadayuki Murai
- Aka:
- Sennen Joyû
- Studio:
- Manga Entertainment
- Genres:
- Anime & Animation
- Collections:
- The Instant Expert's Guide, The Instant Expert's Guide to Yasujiro Ozu
- Countries:
- Japan
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 25/01/2021
- Run Time:
- 83 minutes
- Languages:
- English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, Japanese DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
- Subtitles:
- English
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.85:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 25/01/2021
- Run Time:
- 83 minutes
- Languages:
- English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, Japanese DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
- Subtitles:
- English
- DVD Regions:
- Region 2
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.85:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
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Reviews (1) of Millennium Actress
A Thousand Years in Two Hours - Millennium Actress review by griggs
Millennium Actress is a brilliantly constructed, visually gorgeous film, and probably the easiest way into Satoshi Kon if you've never seen his work before. It feels like the work of a director completely in command of animation as an art form. Kon pulls off things here that live action simply couldn't, blending memory, performance and Japanese film history so fluidly that one slips into the next without you noticing.
The echoes of Setsuko Hara — and, as Kon himself admitted, Hideko Takamine — are hard to miss, and as a card-carrying Hara admirer, that only deepened the appeal for me. It's not a straight retelling of anyone's life, thankfully. What Kon does instead is far freer, stranger and more inventive, and the film is all the richer for it.
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