Millennium Actress (Sennen joyû) (2001)

Posted : 1 year, 10 months ago at Jan 2 16:12

/Major spoilers alert!/ I haven't seen any anime film for a while, not since "Spirited Away" a couple of years ago, and even "Spirited Away" was the creation of Hayao Miyazaki, whose style I've become quite familiar with since the days of "Nausicaä" and "Totoro." In fact, the only Japanese anime movies I was exposed to was those of Ghibli Studio, so I didn't know what to expect from "Millennium Actress". Well, it blew me away. The graphic style of the movie is unique, and so is the storytelling. The seemingly simple premise has the heroine Chiyoko, the dream-eyed girl who becomes an actress, taking on a journey to find her love, the anti-government activist/painter whom she met only once when she was a teenager (how hopelessly romantic can you get than that?). The search spans ove...Read more

Rating : 10/10