Millennium Actress

Past and present, reality and fiction blend seamlessly into each other in Satoshi Kon's dream-like animated drama about a reclusive actress and the documentary filmmaker determined to find out why she abruptly abandoned her career 30 years earlier. Middle-aged Genya Tachibana (voice of Shozo Iizuka), who's been in the thrall of actress Chiyoko Fujiwara (voiced at different ages by Miyoko Shoji, Mami Koyama and Fumiko Orikasa) since he was a young man, has finally secured an interview with Chiyoko for a documentary about her career. Beautiful, unaffected and perpetually breathless with enthusiasm, Chiyoko began acting as a teenager in the 1940s and continued through t...