Millennium Actress
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Movie Reviews of Millennium Actress
Movie Review: MUCH, MUCH BETTER than Perfect 5 Stars
PLEASE LISEN, this new movie by Satochi Kon (director of Perfect Blue and Tokio Godfathers) bring to us this amazing adventure of reality and fantasy.Here is my comments:
* The best of Satochi Kon until now.
* Great animation and graphics (award winning)!!!
* The storyline is twisted as Perfect Blue but not THAT twisted.
* Is hard to understand the story at the beginning but then the story turns more comprehensible.
* There is one action scene but it was SOOOOOO COOL!!!!!!!
* The scenes of samurai drama were the most AWESOME and MEMORABLE scenes I ever seen in anime since Samurai X (the first two OVA episodes, NOT the TV series).
* Belive me!! Millenniun Actress is everything that Perfect Blue should be in the first place. I dind't like Perfect Blue because it was soo boring, TWISTED storyline (it gave me the biggest hedache I ever felt) and the story was not to good.
P.S: Just buy this movie and don't even rent it. The whole movie was great but just buy it for the Samurai
ADIOS!!!
Movie Review: Beautiful, rich and rewarding
Summary: 5 Stars
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.
Movie Review: Awesome!!
Summary: 5 Stars
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.Movie Review: *Tear Drops*
Summary: 5 Stars
Wow!!! I've seen tons and tons of anime in my life, but this one takes the cake! I heard of this DVD and borrowed it from a friend (4 months later I still have it (hehehe)).
The story is about a crew of two documenters who want to interview, for the first time, a veteran actress who has performed in hundreds of movies. One of the men is in love with her and the other, the camera man, just wants to get the job done. As she tells her story, the two men encounter her life by living through them, in an astral-projection way.
Full of slapstick comedy, action, mystery and, of course, love. All leading up to an unforgettable ending. The music, storyline, and characters were unbelievable, along with the voice actors. By the end of this movie, I cried. Okay, I admit it! I cried, yes, cried for an anime movie! It's that great!
Go see this movie. Buy it, don't rent it. I have watched it 37 times! (Yes I kept count!) I bet you all will want to watch this movie over and over. *Tear*
Movie Review: It was pretty awesome movie I ever seen
Summary: 5 Stars
I just watched it. It is at once funny, sad, and very melodramatic and heartbreaking at same. It is also a very complex story which may require several viewings to understand what was going on. The main character, the then actress Chiyoko Fujiwara related how she, as a young teenager, was given a key by a mysterious painter. For the most of her life she journeyed through Japan's history using various period films she had acted in (such as being a schoolgirl, peasant, Geisha, and so on) to illustrate her desperate search for the painter in order to return the key back to him. Line between reality and fantasy became blurred and there are lots of twists down the path. It was just amazing. I love the style, wonderful animation and how the story unfolds, but like I said, it IS rather complex...already I've watched it twice just to figure out the true meaning of the key and Chiyoko's remark at the very end of the film. highly recommand it to any serious anime fans, as well and everyone else who might enjoy it.