Millennium Actress
The magic of movies, the mystery of memory.
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9/14/2002Runtime
87 minsOverview
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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JapaneseBudget
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$37,641Homepage
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A dreamlike journey through decades of Japanese cinema and personal history, where the boundaries between a woman's reel life and real life dissolve into something achingly beautiful. The film moves fluidly between past and present, blending documentary conversation with surreal, painted recreations of memories that feel as emotionally true as they are visually stunning.
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Miyoko Shoji
Chiyoko Fujiwara (70's) (voice)
Mami Koyama
Chiyoko Fujiwara (20-40's) ( voice)
Fumiko Orikasa
Chiyoko Fujiwara (10-20's) (voice)
Showko Tsuda
Eiko Shimao (voice)
Shozo Iizuka
Genya Tachibana (voice)
Masaya Onosaka
Kyouji Ida (voice)
Masane Tsukayama
The Man with the Scar (voice)
Koichi Yamadera
The Man of the Key (voice)
Hisako Kyoda
Chiyoko's Mother (voice)
Tomie Kataoka
Mino (voice)
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