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Millennium Actress

2002 · 87 min

A dreamy, bittersweet swirl where memories and movie scenes melt into each other, sweeping you along on a lifelong, aching search.

Directed by: Satoshi Kon
Genres: Animation, Drama, Romance
Starring: Miyoko Shoji, Mami Koyama, Fumiko Orikasa

Tagline: The magic of movies, the mystery of memory.
Overview: 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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Directed by: Satoshi Kon
Genres: Animation, Drama, Romance
Starring: Miyoko Shoji, Mami Koyama, Fumiko Orikasa

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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
romanticstrength 2 of 3
whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing: brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: memory
love
obsession
identity
aging
Places: big city
countryside
workplace
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
unreliable narrator
animated
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Horror	2
Humour	3
Realism	4
Romance	7
Tension	4
Darkness	4
Complexity	8
Emotional weight	8

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Genres: animation, drama, romance
Directed by: Satoshi Kon
Written by: Sadayuki Murai, Satoshi Kon
Starring: Miyoko Shoji, Mami Koyama, Fumiko Orikasa, Shozo Iizuka, Showko Tsuda, Hirotaka Suzuoki, Hisako Kyoda, Kan Tokumaru
Music: Susumu Hirasawa
Cinematography: Hisao Shirai
Runtime: 87 min
Country: Japan
Languages: Japanese

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