Millennium Actress aka Sennen joyû (2001)iTALiAN.ro_sub-JVaLaMaLiNi.ogv

Animation | Drama | Fantasy | Romance | key | cameraman | actress | rivalry | victorian era

A TV interviewer and his cameraman meet a former actress and travel through her memories
and career.

Storyline

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.
Written by Jon Reeves

Trivia

The character of Chiyoko herself is somewhat reminiscent of Setsuko Hara, a famed Japanese
movie star of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, who likewise withdrew suddenly from public life.
Satoshi Kon has recognized this influence in an interview, also citing Hideko Takamine, but
insisting that Chiyoko is primarily a universal human character.

In some films, the dividing line between subjective and objective reality is very tenuous.
In Satoshi Kon's poetic Japanese animé film Millennium Actress, it is almost non-existent.

film language is italian with romanian subtitle embedded