Millennium Actress Rating: Release Date: 28 October, 2003 Retail Price: $14.99 OUR Price: $13.99 You SAVE: $1.00! Cast: Miyoko Shôji Shôzô Îzuka Mami Koyama

Millennium Actress Reviews

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Beautiful, rich and rewarding
The story of the great Japanese actress Chiyoko is a very moving and interesting one. She is a kind of "everyman" - all things to all people and a real hero, too.

The story is told in a rather interesting and unusual way - like a documentary, with the journalists actually ending up in Chiyoko's films, which trace both her own life and the story of Japanese over several hundred years.

Millennium Actress is a film so rich in layers and images it is almost too much to take in in one viewing. The beauty of the DVD is that one can watch it chapter by chapter over an extended period.

I like to watch this film in Japanese with English subtitles, but the version released in Australia has an excellent English voice option.

This is an animation, but it is really a sophisticated and adult film - I can't imagine many young children will enjoy this film.


Needless to say, some bright and enthusiastic young dude in Hollywood will probably try to make a version of this film with live actors. I hope not.

Awesome!!
I am somewhat new to Anime, and I have been very lucky with the ones that I have seen so far. Bubble-gum girls. sci-fi ninja-action flix really don't have very much appeal to me. And although the hentai films are quite "amusing" they really serve a different function than what I usually look for in a movie. Thus I was very pleased at how amazing this film was. Millenium Actress feels like a normal movie that just happens to be animated. I won't go into all the details of the plot, but I will just comment that the plot was excellent, very adult but not "adult", the characters were good, and of course the visual elements were astounding. This movie doesn't have the Disney-esque feel that movies like Steamboy (which I didn't care for), in fact it felt more like watching an Oscar worthy picture. If you don't like ninjas, busty girls, vampires or robots and are still curious to check out anime, Millenium Actress is a fine place to see the amazing potential of this artform. So far it's right up there with Spirited Away in my book.

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