Millennium Actress is a 2001 Japanese animated drama film co-written and directed by Satoshi Kon and produced by Madhouse.
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10 Facts About Millennium Actress
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Millennium Actress's helped him escape from the authorities and after his departure, decided to become a film actress in the hope that he would recognize and find her.
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Millennium Actress tells Tachibana, who was working as a studio assistant at the time, that the artist was tortured and killed after his arrest.
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Millennium Actress is the second film directed by Satoshi Kon and his first original work, after the highly acclaimed Perfect Blue.
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Project for Millennium Actress came from the words "Let's make a movie that looks like a trompe l'oeil" by Taro Maki, who decided to produce Kon's film because he thought his previous work was amazing.
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Millennium Actress then worked with the scenario writer, Sadayuki Murai, and the producer to develop the episodes and detailed character settings to be included in the plot.
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Millennium Actress began with a request to make a trompe l'oeil movie like the previous Perfect Blue.
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Millennium Actress aimed to create a film a kind of The Adventures of Old Lady Blowing Smoke by mixing fiction and reality to the point where it becomes meaningless to distinguish between them.
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Los Angeles Times critic Kenneth Turan said of the film "as a rumination on the place movies have in our personal and collective subconscious, Millennium Actress fascinatingly goes where films have not often gone before".
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Millennium Actress received the Grand Prize in the Japan Agency of Cultural Affairs Media Arts Festival, tying with Spirited Away.
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