Millennium Actress

Millennium Actress , Sennen Joy? is a 2001 Japanese anime film directed by Satoshi Kon and animated by the Studio Madhouse. It tells the story of a documentary filmmaker investigating the life of an elderly actress in which reality and cinema become blurred. It is based on the life of Setsuko Hara and Hideko Takamine.

Additional voices were provided by Mitsuru Ogata, Tomohisa As, Kji Yusa, Makoto Higo, Kichi Sakaguchi, Tomoyuki Shimura, Akiko Kimura, Tomo Saeki, Hirofumi Nojima, Ruri Asano, Hiroko naka, Yoshinori Sonobe and Yumiko Daikoku.Following the release of Satoshi Kons previous film Perfect Blue, Kon considered adapting the Yasutaka Tsutsui novel Paprika 1993 into his next film. However, these plans were stalled when the distribution company for Perfect Blue, Rex Entertainment, went bankrupt. Millennium Actress had an estimated budget of 1.2 million. The screenplay was written by Sadayuki Murai, who used a seamless connection between illusion and reality to create a Trompelil kind of film. Millennium Actress is the first Satoshi Kon film to feature Susumu Hirasawa, whom Kon was a longtime fan of, as composer. ........

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