MILLENNIUM ACTRESS

The trailer for 2001’s MILLENNIUM ACTRESS. Directed by Satoshi Kon and written by Sadayuki Murai (from a story by Satoshi Kon). The film stars Miyoko Shôji, Mami Koyama, Fumiko Orikasa, Shôzô Îzuka, Shouko Tsuda, Hirotaka Suzuoki, Hisako Kyôda, and Kôichi Yamadera.

The plot summary is as follows:

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.

MILLENNIUM ACTRESS is currently streaming on The Roku Channel and on Pluto TV and it is available for rent/purchase on most digital platforms.