Millennium Actress | |
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Directed by | Satoshi Kon |
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Story by | Satoshi Kon |
Produced by | Taro Maki |
Starring | |
Cinematography | Hisao Shirai |
Edited by | Satoshi Terauchi |
Music by | Susumu Hirasawa |
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Distributed by | KlockWorx |
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Running time | 87 minutes |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
Budget | $1.2 million[1] |
Box office | $37,641 (US)[2] |
Millennium Actress (千年女優, Sennen Joyū) is a 2001 Japanese animated drama film co-written and directed by Satoshi Kon and produced by Madhouse. Loosely based on the lives of actresses Setsuko Hara and Hideko Takamine,[3] it tells the story of two documentary filmmakers investigating the life of a retired acting legend. As she tells them the story of her life, the borderline between cinema and reality gradually becomes blurred.[4]