Millennium Actress(Movie, 2001)

Name: Millennium Actress
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance / Love
Released: 2001
Duration: T01:27:00
Rating: 3.9

Original title: "千年女優" (Japanese/JA)

| 1h 27min | Genres: Animation, Drama, Romance / Love

Rating: 3.9/5 (with 338 votes)

Millennium Actress (千年女優, Sennen Joyū) is a 2001 Japanese animated drama film co-written and directed by Satoshi Kon and produced by Madhouse. Loosely based on the lives of actresses Setsuko Hara and Hideko Takamine, it tells the story of two documentary filmmakers investigating the life of a retired acting legend. As she tells them the story of her life, the borderline between cinema and reality gradually becomes blurred. ()

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Awards & Nominations for Millennium Actress

Animation Kobe Theatrical Film Award

About Millennium Actress

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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Millennium Actress - Official Trailer(Trailer, 1:47)

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Additional Information

Production country: Japan

Inspired by: Setsuko Hara (Person), Hideko Takamine (Person)

Made by: Madhouse

Original language: Japanese (JA)

Spoken languages: Japanese (JA)

Translated into 20 languages: Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Vietnamese (VI), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 09/12/2003 (World premiere: 09/14/2002)

Cast: Mami Koyama, Fumiko Orikasa, Shōzō Iizuka, Masaya Onosaka, Shōko Tsuda, Hirotaka Suzuoki, Takkō Ishimori, Hisako Kyōda, Kōichi Yamadera, Masane Tsukayama

Voice Actor: Miyoko Shōji, Mami Koyama, Fumiko Orikasa, Cindy Robinson, Erin Yvette, Abby Trott, Shōzō Iizuka, Masamichi Satō, John Vernon, Masaya Onosaka, Stuart Milligan, Ben Diskin, Shōko Tsuda, Laura Post, Hirotaka Suzuoki, Stephen Bent, Keith Silverstein, Tomie Kataoka, Takkō Ishimori, Kan Tokumaru, Hisako Kyōda, Kōichi Yamadera, Masane Tsukayama

Director: Satoshi Kon

Producer: Tarō Maki

Screenwriter: Satoshi Kon, Sadayuki Murai

Director of Photography: Hisao Shirai

Composer: Susumu Hirasawa

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"千年女优"

"Čijoko, herečka tisíciletí"

"Aastatuhande näitlejatar"

"L'actrice millénaire"

"Sennen Joyû"

"Sennen Joyuu"

"千年女優"

"千年女優：2002"

"천년여우"

"Tūkstantmečio aktorė"

"Vai Diễn Ngàn Năm"

Keywords: historical, key, movie studio, china, sengoku period, meiji period, accident, story within the story, japan, actress, surreal, second sino-japanese war (1937-45), shouwa period, recollection, recluse, anime

Budget: 1,200,000 USD

Revenue: 37,641 USD (= 3%)

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