Millennium Actress
There are two big Japanese animes from 2001. Millennium Actress is the other one, the one that isn’t Spirited Away. A Citizen Kane-style drama, it’s a sweet and poignant film about a documentarian and his cameraman tracking down a legendary actress who stepped away from the limelight decades before. With the studio where she spent her glory years now being demolished and the end of an era physically apparent, they decide this is the hook they need for a film about a studio and its most famous star. But will Chiyoko Fujiwara even still be alive? Given this lead-in – and the Kane-like air of mystery which writer/director Satoshi Kon builds around his … Read more