Millenium Actress

Aka: Sennen Joyû / 千年女優,

Director: Kon Satoshi

Release date: 2001

Language: Japanese

Subtitle: English (Hard-subbed)

Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance

Starring:

Miyoko Shōji as Chiyoko Fujiwara (old)
Mami Koyama as Chiyoko Fujiwara (adult)
Fumiko Orikasa as Chiyoko Fujiwara (young)
Shōzō Iizuka as Genya Tachibana
Masaya Onosaka as Kyōji Ida the Cameraman

Synopsis:

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.
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Awards:

Fant-Asia Film Festival:

Best Animation Film: Satoshi Kon

Fantasia Ground-Breaker Award: Satoshi Kon


Mainichi Film Concours:

Ofuji Noburo Award: Satoshi Kon


Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival:

Orient Express Award: Satoshi Kon


Awards Nomination:

Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA:

Saturn Award: Best DVD release

Annie Awards:

Outstanding Achievement in an Animated Theatrical Feature

Outstanding Directing in an Animated Feature Production: Satoshi Kon

Outstanding Voice Acting in an Animated Feature Production: Miyoko Shôji as Chiyoko Fujiwara's voice

Outstanding Writing in an Animated Feature Production: Satoshi Kon and Sadayuki Murai

Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA:

Golden Reel Award: Best Sound Editing in Feature Film - Animated - Sound: Masafumi Mima

Online Film Critics Society Awards:

OFCS Award: Best Animated Feature

Satellite Awards:

Golden Satellite Award: Best Motion Picture, Animated or Mixed Media

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