Millennium Actress
(2001)
Sennen joyû
I hate you more than I can bear. And I love you more than I can bear.
Stars: Miyoko Shôji, Mami Koyama, Fumiko Orikasa, Shôzô Îzuka, Shouko Tsuda
Director: Satoshi Kon
Writer: Sadayuki Murai, Satoshi Kon
Language: English
Studio: Bandai Visual Company
Duration: 87
Rated: PG
DVD Release: March 2006
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.
Miyoko Shôji | Chiyoko Fujiwara (70's) (voice) |
Mami Koyama | Chiyoko Fujiwara (20-40's) (voice) |
Fumiko Orikasa | Chiyoko Fujiwara (10-20's) (voice) |
Shoko Tsuda | Eiko Shimao |
Shôzô | Genya Tachibana (voice) |
Shôzô Îzuka | Genya Tachibana (voice) |
Shouko Tsuda | Eiko Shimao (voice) |
Hirotaka Suzuoki | Junichi Ootaki (voice) |
Hisako Kyôda | Mother (voice) |
Satoshi Terauchi | Editor |
Kan Tokumaru | Senior Manager of Ginei (voice) |
Tomie Kataoka | Mino (voice) |
Kazuyo Aoki | Housemaid |
Masamichi Sato | Young Genya (voice) |
Hisako Kyouda | Chiyoko's Mother (voice) |
Masaya Onosaka | Kyoji Ida (voice) |
Susumu Hirasawa | Original Music Composer |
Masane Tsukayama | The Man with the Scar (voice) |
Nobutaka Ike | Art Direction |
Kôichi Yamadera | The Man of the Key (voice) |
Takkô Ishimori | Head Clerk (voice) |
Stephen Bent | Junichi Otaki (voice: English version) |
Eun Young Kim | animation |
Matt Devereaux | The Man with the Scar (voice: English version) |
Felicity Duncan Smith | Mother (voice: English version) (as Felicity Duncan) |
David Kitchen | Man with the Key (voice: English version) |
Jo Lee | Shimao Eiko (voice: English version) |
Stuart Milligan | Ida Kyoji (voice: English version) |
Regina Reagan | Chiyoko (Manga Entertainment 2005) (voice: English version) |
Samantha Shaw | Mino (voice: English version) |
Hisao Shirai | Cinematographer |
John Vernon | Tachibana, Senior Executive (voice: English version) |
Genre: Anime & Manga
Media: DVD
Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1
IMDb: 0291350