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.
Screening:
In-theatre Screening
Full House 2021-08-26 (Thu)
19:45Full House 2021-08-28 (Sat)
14:30
Hong Kong Arts Centre Louis Koo Cinema (Venue)
EMP Cinemas iSQUARE (Venue)
EMP Cinemas Times Square (Venue)
PREMIERE Elements (Venue)
K11 Art House
Broadway Hollywood
Hong Kong Film Archive
Festival Grand Cinema
The Grand Cinema
M+ Cinema
Cine Moko
MOViE MOViE
The Metroplex
the sky
HK Science Museum Lecture Hall
Hong Kong Arts Centre Shouson Theatre
MCL Telford Cinema
Tai Kwun
The HKFYG Jockey Club Media 21
CINE FAN ONLINE
Chinese Subtitles
Category III
Meet the audience
Post-screening talk
Post-screening discussion with the director
Director and/or actor(s) will meet the audience
Assigned seating
Full House
Remarks
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