Millennium Actress Page #2

Synopsis: A movie studio is being torn down. TV interviewer Genya Tachibana has tracked down its most famous star, Chiyoko Fujiwara, who has been a recluse since she left acting some 30 years ago. Tachibana delivers a key to her, and it causes her to reflect on her career; as she's telling the story, Tachibana and his long-suffering cameraman are drawn in. The key was given to her as a teenager by a painter and revolutionary that she helped to escape the police. She becomes an actress because it will make it possible to track him down, and she spends the next several decades acting out that search in various genres and eras.
Director(s): Satoshi Kon
Production: Go Fish Pictures
  7 wins & 8 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.9
Metacritic:
70
Rotten Tomatoes:
92%
PG
Year:
2001
87 min
Website
1,027 Views


Well done.

That was great.

You can act.

What's wrong with you?

So... any clues to the guy

who owns the key?

You still haven't given up?

Why not try a fortune-teller?

There's one near here

they say is very good.

Divination

The man you seek is in the north.

He paints. He's tall.

And would he happen

to be searching for a key?

Do you know him?

If that's the man...

Tell me! Please! Where is he?

Leaving the shoot?!

That's unprofessional!

You just don't understand women.

And you do?

Mass Roundup OfActivists

In North Manchuria

He's a lucky guy, if she's

willing to follow him this far.

Would that it were me!

Chiyoko! Chiyoko!

Nationalists?

Communists?

Look!

Bandits!

Miss Fujiwara! Chiyoko!

Hey! This is really happening!

Chiyoko! Speak to me!

Oh... excuse me.

Boss! Let's get out of here!

Where'd the bandits go?!

What's the meaning of this?!

That's what I'd like to know!

Where did Manchuria go?!

Your Highness!

Where is he?

My lord is in the castle!

Your Highness! You mustn't!

My lord!

My lord!

Why would you not wait for me?!

I... I...

You cried at all her films?

Stay your dagger.

Wraith! Do you haunt this castle?

Call me what you will.

Since before you were born

I have known you.

What do you wish?

To assist at my death?

Drink!

What may not be in this world

will be in the next.

So I must die...

There he awaits.

That is Thousand-Year Tea!

Now you will burn forever

in the flames of eternal love!

I am deceived?!

I hate you!

More than I can bear!

And I love you!

More than I can bear!

One day you will understand!

Boss! No!

Genemon, Marshall of Nagato,

at your service!

Since when?!

I will lay down my life

to save Your Highness!

I will not leave My lord.

Wraith! Be damned!

I regret to say My lord

has been taken captive.

My lord?! Does he yet live?!

You must return to your land!

I come for the Prince!

Onward, Torakichi!

Who?!

Your Highness!

I will go to him!

Your Highness!

Nagato!

Your Highness!

I will not forget your loyalty!

May fortune be yours!

It seems like yesterday.

You don't mind?

Not at all, Miss Fujiwara!

Any way you like.

Thank you.

Where was I?

Breaking through the enemy...

Where Nagato gets wounded.

Oh, yes...

If he was a prisoner,

I just had to help him somehow.

- What the?!

- Villainy!

Guard the prisoner!

I'm here to save you!

You'll never get the better of me!

Could a princess do that?

Behind you!

Finish her off!

Wait.

Who are you?!

Give me a break!

My name is of no importance.

You! You followed me!

Cut him down!

I'm good at being stubborn.

Why do you care about me?

I can't help it. I like you.

The same reason you insist

on going to save him.

But I love him!

Stop talking and go.

Leave this fight to me.

I don't need any thanks.

I've always thought

I'd like to die...

for the woman I love.

Maybe I should get myself fired...

Have at me, swords!

All of you at once!

Here comes help!

You little imp!

Where is he?!

Hmph! They weren't so tough!

Wait for me, Chiyoko!

I'm coming!

By now his head's on display

in the capital!

Kyoto?!

For you, the road ends here!

He's in Kyoto!

Have pity!

No! I won't let you go!

I'll come back!

I just want to see him

and give him what's his!

How nice of you!

A man about to be executed

is in need of nothing now.

You poor fool!

Pursue him as long

and as far as you may...

you cannot escape your fate.

Neither you, nor her!

Don't just stand there!

Take her away!

On your feet!

Let me go! Please! Let me go!

I must go to him!

Now we're in Kyoto... faster than

a speeding bullet train!

Another age, too...

Torakichi!

Where's Chiyoko?

You're not dressed for this era.

Don't you glare at me!

I taught you everything you know,

and now you've shamed me!

You'll learn to listen to reason!

The fool! Making Eiko mad!

It serves her right!

Chiyoko doesn't know her place.

A few men like her

and she thinks she's a geisha!

Watch her! Make sure

she doesn't run away again!

Wasn't this supposed to be

a documentary?

Damn right!

"The Seven Specters:

The Legend of Fujiwara Chiyoko"!

Old people these days!

Are you all right, Miss?

I'm fine.

Leave this to me.

Come this way.

He's in the city, isn't he?

Surely you don't think

I'd keep you locked in here!

I won't forget this!

When you first came here,

I felt I knew you already.

And I thought that some day

I'd like to help you.

And ever since then...

Chiyoko!

Pay attention!

A jailbreak?!

Some rebel samurai got away!

Spread out!

Sorry.

It's me! Don't you remember?

We met on a winter's day,

just like this!

I've searched and searched for you!

To give this back to you...

Wait!

Your key!

Keep it till we meet again.

Over there! Hurry!

You saw a samurai

run past here, didn't you?

Where did he go?

That way.

I've seen you before...

You're hiding something.

Tell us.

You know which way he went.

Whoops!

Have no fear, Miss.

And here he comes at last!

You're a damned

anti-government rebel!

And you're fools who don't know

when your time has gone.

Get on, Miss...

and leave the rest to...

Be careful!

You'll strain yourself!

Such kindness to a humble man!

Miss! I'll never forget...

Playing truant, are we?

Off to meet a certain

"human rights" agitator?

I don't understand...

We have proof!

He left you a little memento

on your storeroom wall.

He did?!

So you do know him.

That's all I need to know.

We'll continue at the station.

You can tell us everything there.

Another stubborn one!

Tell them what they want to know.

I can't tell them what I don't know.

But I wouldn't tell them

even if I knew.

I'd never betray him!

You little fool!

That's what you say now...

But feelings change.

I won't be like that!

I love him more every day!

Everyone's like that.

They say Eiko gave her man

all the money she'd earned!

Then he ran off with someone else!

I wish she'd pass some my way!

Huh?

Now what?

Miss! I'm here to save you!

- Who are you?

- Have you forgotten?

I'm Gen the rickshaw man!

I've come, just as I promised...

to repay your kindness!

Am I really being set free?

Didn't I say you would be?

We don't need you anymore.

We caught the guy.

Wait! Please!

Wait! Please!

Open the door!

Please! I just want to see him!

Please! Open the door!

Please! Open the door!

What's next?

What is this, science-fiction?

Idiot!

Is this your idea of gratitude?!

But the storehouse is on fire!

You little fool! What makes you

think you can just die too?!

- Chiyo!

- Chiyo!

Chiyoko, come back!

Hurry!

Chiyoko!

Come on!

Wisteria Sweets

It's a picture of her!

Until the day we meet again.

Chiyoko!

Chiyoko! Chiyoko!

Are you all right?!

Chiyoko!

Chiyoko! Chiyoko!

You cannot escape...

You cannot escape!

Are you all right?

Are you feeling ill?

I'm fine. If you listen to doctors...

you think that old people

are always sick.

- We'll come back another day.

- No.

By tomorrow I won't remember...

After the war, it was all

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Satoshi Kon

Satoshi Kon (今 敏, Kon Satoshi, October 12, 1963 – August 24, 2010) was a Japanese film director, animator, screenwriter and manga artist from Sapporo, Hokkaidō and a member of the Japanese Animation Creators Association (JAniCA). He was a graduate of the Graphic Design department of the Musashino Art University. He was the younger brother of guitarist and studio musician Tsuyoshi Kon. more…

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