Millennium Actress
2002
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1h 26min
• Animation, Drama, Fantasy
At the turn of the millennium, the legendary film studio Ginei demolishes their aged film sets. Their former employee Genya Tachibana decides to use this occasion to film a documentary about the studio's great star, Chiyoko Fujiwara. Together with his cameraman Kyōji Ida, he travels to the remote house of the now over 70-year-old actress. A golden key that they give her as a gift awakens her memories of her first love, who disappeared in the chaos of World War 2 and whom she was searching for her whole life long. In Chiyoko's story, the history of Japanese film unravels so lifelike that past and present become indistinguishable.
