Millennium Actress

Millennium Actress
Theatrical release poster
Directed bySatoshi Kon
Screenplay by
Story bySatoshi Kon
Produced byTaro Maki
Starring
CinematographyHisao Shirai
Edited bySatoshi Terauchi
Music bySusumu Hirasawa
Production
company
Distributed byKlockWorx
Release dates
Running time
87 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese
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]

  1. ^ "Interview Satoshi Kon" (in French). Catsuka. October 18, 2006. Retrieved July 31, 2011.
  2. ^ "Millennium Actress (2003)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved December 20, 2015.
  3. ^ "さよならの季節" (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. August 30, 2010. Retrieved August 29, 2016.
  4. ^ Abrams, Simon (April 1, 2011). "Setsuko Hara: The diva who left Japan wanting a lot more". Capital New York. Archived from the original on December 31, 2012. Retrieved September 26, 2012.