Synopsis
Documentary filmmaker Genya Tachibana has tracked down the legendary actress Chiyoko Fujiwara, who mysteriously vanished at the height of her career. When he presents her with a key she had lost and thought was gone forever, the filmmaker could not have imagined that it would not only unlock the long-held secrets of Chiyoko’s life... but also his own.
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Cast
- Miyoko ShojiChiyoko Fujiwara (70's) (voice)
- Mami KoyamaChiyoko Fujiwara (20-40's) ( voice)
- Fumiko OrikasaChiyoko Fujiwara (10-20's) (voice)
- Showko TsudaEiko Shimao (voice)
- Shozo IizukaGenya Tachibana (voice)
- Masaya OnosakaKyouji Ida (voice)
- Masane TsukayamaThe Man with the Scar (voice)
- Koichi YamaderaThe Man of the Key (voice)
- Hisako KyodaChiyoko's Mother (voice)
- Tomie KataokaMino (voice)
Recommendations
- 100
Chicago Tribune
Fabulous for many reasons. Most important, this movie is Chiyoko's story, not an anime adventure. It's animated, but it's human and will touch the soul of anyone who has loved deeply. - 80
L.A. Weekly
Satoshi innovates not by pushing off into more extreme realms of adolescent fantasy, but by using all the resources of animation to tell complex dramatic stories, resources that in his hands seem almost limitless. - 80
Los Angeles Times
Millennium Actress fascinatingly goes where films have not often gone before. - 80
The New York Times
To watch Millennium Actress is to witness one cinematic medium celebrating another, an expression of movie love that is wonderfully eccentric and deeply affecting. - 75
New York Post
It manages to be both kinetic and dream-like at the same time -- "Run Lola Run" by way of David Lynch. - 75
Boston Globe
The movie's narrative can be taxingly ornate, but there's something beautiful about its metaphorical conflation of politics and glamour, the real and the fictional. - 70
The A.V. Club
Animated in much the same style as "Perfect Blue," but with greater depth and a more elaborate sense of playfulness, Millennium Actress is a visual feast, but also a mental gymnastics routine. - 70
TV Guide Magazine
Past and present, reality and fiction blend seamlessly into each other in Satoshi Kon's dream-like animated drama.
