Millennium Actress
Dir: Kon Satoshi
Japan, 2001, Japanese, 87mins, DCP
Cast: Voice Cast: Shoji Miyoko, Koyama Mami, Izuka Shozo
Kon Satoshi explores the possibilities of time, space and storytelling in animation with his second feature film, a heartfelt tribute to Japanese cinema inspired by the lives of screen legends Hara Setsuko and Takamine Hideko. Beginning as a seemingly traditional story of a television producer and his cameraman’s interview with a reclusive actress, the film soon evolves into a whimsical fantasy juxtaposing memory and reality, leaping back and forth in time to trace her acting career and life story, in an amazing journey that transports us to relive the golden years of Japanese films.
Fantasia International Film Festival: Best Animation Film and Fantasia Ground-Breaker Award
SITGES – International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia: Orient Express Award
28/8 (Sat): Film talk with Maruyama Masao. Moderator: Kongkee. Conducted in Japanese and Cantonese. Admission by ticket only.
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Screening:
In-theatre Screening
Full House 2021-08-26 (Thu)
19:45Full House 2021-08-28 (Sat)
14:30
EMP Cinemas iSQUARE (Venue)
Chinese Subtitles
Post-screening talk / Q&A
Full House
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