Millennium Actress (movie)

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©2001 Chiyoko Committee

Alternative title:
Chiyoko Millennial Actress
Sennen Joyu (Japanese)
Актриса тысячелетия (Russian)
千年女優 (Japanese)
천년여우 (Korean)
Themes: historical
Objectionable content: Mild
Plot Summary: When Studio Gin'ei commissions filmmaker Gen'ya Tachibana to make a documentary in commemoration of its 70th anniversary, he travels to a secluded mountain lodge to interview the idol of his youth, the enigmatic Chiyoko Fujiwara, who was the studio's leading lady from the 1930s until the 1960s. As Chiyoko reminisces about her life, Tachibana and his cameraman suddenly find themselves on a rich and dazzling journey through time. Chiyoko's films and personal memories intertwine with present events and stretch the boundaries of reality.
User Ratings: 2241 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 756 votes (sub:603, dub:105, raw:11, ?:7, edit.dub:1, others:29
5 German dubbed
5 Spanish dubbed
4 Spanish subtitled
4 French subtitled
2 Russian dubbed
2 Italian subtitled
2 Portuguese subtitled
1 French edited dub
1 Swedish subtitled
1 Russian subtitled
1 Estonian subtitled
1 French dubbed
)
 Excellent: 648 votes (sub:537, dub:83, ?:7, raw:5, others:16
4 German dubbed
2 Portuguese subtitled
2 Russian subtitled
1 Italian dubbed
1 Chinese Mandarin subtitled
1 Turkish subtitled
1 French subtitled
1 Russian dubbed
1 Dutch subtitled
1 Spanish subtitled
1 Italian subtitled
)
 Very good: 407 votes (sub:321, dub:61, ?:5, raw:3, edit.dub:1, others:16
3 German dubbed
3 Russian subtitled
2 French subtitled
2 Italian subtitled
2 Spanish subtitled
2 Spanish dubbed
1 French dubbed
1 Portuguese subtitled
)
 Good: 242 votes (sub:192, dub:33, raw:3, ?:2, others:12
4 Spanish subtitled
4 Polish subtitled
1 Spanish edited dub
1 Portuguese subtitled
1 Russian subtitled
1 Italian subtitled
)
 Decent: 88 votes (sub:65, dub:21, raw:1, others:1
1 German dubbed
)
 So-so: 44 votes (sub:32, dub:10, ?:1, others:1
1 Spanish dubbed
)
 Not really good: 16 votes (sub:15, dub:1)
 Weak: 19 votes (sub:13, dub:5, raw:1)
 Bad: 10 votes (sub:8, dub:2)
 Awful: 5 votes (sub:5)
 Worst ever: 6 votes (sub:5, raw:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 3294 users, rank: #284 (of 6067)
Median rating: Excellent
Arithmetic mean: 8.584 (Excellent−), std. dev.: 1.5834, rank: #123 (of 6061)
Weighted mean: 8.536 (Excellent−), rank: #118 (of 6061) (seen all: 8.55 / seen some: 6.97 / won't finish: 5.00)
Bayesian estimate: 8.531 (Excellent−), rank: #57 (of 4612)
Running time: 87 minutes
Vintage:
2001-01-23
2006-10-07 (Spain - Buzz Channel)
Premiere date:
2001-07-28 (Canada, Fantasia Festival, world premiere)
2002-09-14 (Japan)
2004-01-15 (Italy - Future Film Festival)
Release dates: We have 4
Opening Theme:
"Chiyoko no Theme Mode-1 (千代子のテーマ MODE-1)" by Susumu Hirasawa
Ending Theme:
"Rotation [lotus-2]" by Susumu Hirasawa
Links: We have 2
Trivia: We have 13
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Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Satoshi Kon
Screenplay:
Sadayuki Murai
Satoshi Kon
Unit Director: Kou Matsuo
Music: Susumu Hirasawa
Original story: Satoshi Kon
Character Design:
Satoshi Kon
Takeshi Honda
Art Director: Nobutaka Ike
Animation Director:
Hideki Hamasu
Kenichi Konishi
Shougo Furuya
Takeshi Honda
Toshiyuki Inoue
Art design: Yasumitsu Suetake
Sound Director: Masafumi Mima
Director of Photography: Hisao Shirai
Producer: Taro Maki

Animation Check: Chieko Ichimanda
Art Supervision:
Kenichi Konishi 
Toshiyuki Inoue 
Assistant Director of Photography: Katsunori Maehara
Background Art:
Hisashi Ikeda
Junko Ina
Kaoru Inoda
Masaki Yoshizaki
Masako Okada
Masatoshi Kai
Nao Karino
Shigeyo Kiriyama
Shinichi Uehara
Takashi Ichikura
Yuuko Sugiyama
Camera:
Hiroki Shiozuka
Hiroshi Noguchi
Kanae Haijima
Kazunori Yamaguchi
Kohici Gonda
Kumiko Idei
Masafumi Awakura
Motoaki Ikegami
Shinji Ikegami
Shouji Yazawa
Takao Kawahara
Takashi Shimada
Tetsuo Oto
Tomohiro Nishiyama
Toshikazu Kuno
Yuki Toyonaga
Yuko Orikasa
Yumiko Morimoto
Cinematography: Hisao Shirai
Color design: Satoshi Hashimoto
Editing:
Satoshi Terauchi
Takeshi Honda 
Finishing:
Jeong A Lim
Ok In Park
In-Between Animation:
Aiko Wakatsuki (Studio Mad House)
Akiko Konno (Studio Mad House)
Chang Gun Jin
Cheor Ho Jang
Choi He Ran
Choi Soon Youl
Chun Soo Kim
Dong-Wook Lee
Eun Jung Lee
Eun Me Pyun
Eun Young Kim
Hee Jean Joung
Heen Eun Choi
Her Hye Jung
Her Me Ah
Ho Nam Jae
Hwang Soon-A
Hye-Sung Lee
Hyun Kwak
Hyun Ju Jun
Hyun Ju Song
Hyun Mi Cho
Hyun Suk Lee
Ichiro Uno (Studio Mad House)
Jang Hyun Sik
Keiko Imori (Studio Mad House)
Kenichi Watanabe (Studio Mad House)
Kim Mi Suk
Kim Soo Jin
Kim Yu Mi
Ko Kun Ae
Kum Sook Seo
Lee Jae Min
Lee Suck Hoon
Lee Ha Youn
Lee Hyo Sun Sun 
Lee Suel Young
Lim Hyo Kyoung
Lim Joung Mi
Mi Kyoung An
Mi Ok Lee
Myung-Hee Youn
Sakiko Watanabe (Studio Mad House)
Sung Hee Jung
Takafumi Hori (Studio Mad House)
Takahito Nakazawa (Studio Mad House)
Woo Song Sik
Yoon Jung Hye
Yoon Suk Jae
Yoshiko Okuda (Studio Mad House)
Youn Hye Seon
Youn-Hee Jeong
Young Rae Jo
Yui Enomoto (Studio Mad House)
Yuko Yasaki (Studio Mad House)
Ink & Paint:
Chae Yu Mi
Cho Hee Kyung
Choi Ki Jung
Choi Soon Hee
Choi Yun Hee
Choun Kyoung Ai
Eun Hyun
Eun Jin Hong
Gae Ryun Park
Ha Myeong Yeon
Hwa Soon Kim
Hyun Soon Kwon
Jang Nam Ohuk
Jeon Sun Hee
Jeoung Eun Suk
Jun Joung Suk
Jung Eun Kim
Jung Eun Lee
Jung Hee Park
Kang Young Sook
Kim Jung A
Kim Su Jaung
Kim Young Yae
Kim Hyun Hee
Kim Hyun Jung
Kim Jung Hye
Kim Keun Hwa
Kwon Tae-Ok
Lee Hae Kyung
Lee Jin
Lee Yeun Hee
Lee Sook Hee
Lim Jeung A
Myoung Lim Am
Nam Hee Lee
O Sunk Kwon
Park Hea Roung
Park HOhuk In
Park Mee Ok
Park Youn Joung
Park Young Sin
Pek Eun Ea
Seo Saeng Hoe
Seo Sung Hee
Shin Eun Kyung
Shin Hye Mi 
Su Im Ho
Sung Ho Moon
Yoo In sook
You Kyung Jung
Young Mi Kim
Young suk Hea
Ink & Paint Check:
Chikako Kamata
Harue Ono
Kana Nakayama
Tomoko Yamamoto
Yoshinori Horikawa
Yumi Koshikawa
Yuriko Kadomoto
Yuuka Suzuki
Key Animation:
Hideki Hamasu
Hiroshi Shimizu
Hirotaka Kinoshita
Hiroyuki Horiuchi
Hitoshi Haga
Jun Takagi
Junko Abe
Katsuichi Nakayama
Kenichi Konishi
Kouichi Arai
Kumiko Kawana
Masaharu Tada
Masahiko Kubo
Masahiro Emoto
Masahiro Kurio
Michio Mihara
Michiyo Suzuki
Minoru Murao
Mitsunori Murata
Shinji Otsuka
Shougo Furuya
Takeshi Honda (uncredited)
Tatsuhiro Itano
Tetsuya Kumagai
Tetsuya Nishio
Toshihiro Kikuchi
Toshiyuki Inoue
Yasuhiro Seo
Yasunori Miyazawa
Yoshimitsu Ohashi
Planning: Masao Maruyama
Production Advancement: Takayuki Hirao
Special Effects:
Kumiko Taniguchi
Sachiko Suzuki
Theme Lyrics & Composition: Susumu Hirasawa (ED)
Title Design: Kyoko Yamashita
Fumiko Orikasa as Chiyoko Fujiwara(teen)
Mami Koyama as Chiyoko Fujiwara(20s-40s)
Miyoko Shoji as Chiyoko Fujiwara(70s)

Kouichi Yamadera as Man of the key
Masamichi Sato as Genya Tachibana(young)
Masane Tsukayama as Scarface
Masaya Onosaka as Kyoji Ida (cameraman)
Shoko Tsuda as Eiko
Shozo Iizuka as Genya Tachibana

Hirotaka Suzuoki as Otaki
Kan Tokumaru as Senior manager of Gin'ei
Naoko Kyooda as Chiyoko's mother
Takkou Ishimori as Clerk
Tomie Kataoka as Mino

Akiko Kimura
Hirofumi Nojima
Koichi Sakaguchi
Koji Yusa
Makoto Higo
Mitsuru Ogata
Ruri Asano
Tomo Saeki
Tomohisa Asou
Tomoyuki Shimura
Yoshinori Sonobe
Yumiko Daikoku
Japanese companies
English staff
English cast
ADR Director: Terry Wilson (UK Dub)
ADR Script: John Vernon (UK Dub)

Sound Mixing: Tony Atkins (UK Dub)
Regina Reagan as Chiyoko Fujiwara(UK Dub)

David Kitchen as Man with Key(UK Dub)
Felicity Duncan as Mother(UK Dub)
Jo Lee as Shimao Eiko(UK Dub)
John Vernon as
Senior Executive(UK Dub)
Tachibana(UK Dub)
Matt Devereaux as Man with Scar(UK Dub)
Samantha Shaw as Mino(UK Dub)
Stephen Bent as Junichi Otaki(UK Dub)
Stuart Milligan as Ida Kyoji(UK Dub)
English companies
Distributor:
Madman Entertainment (Australia)
Manga Entertainment (UK)
Dubbing: Village Productions (UK)
Licensed by:
Dreamworks
Go Fish Pictures
French staff
French cast
Dubbing Director: Guylaine Gibert
French companies
Dubbing: Dubbing Brothers (BELGIUM)
DVD Distribution: Dreamworks (France)
Spanish staff
Spanish cast
(none)
Mar Roca as Chiyoko Fujiwara (Age 20-40)(Spain dub)
Núria Trifol as Chiyoko Fujiwara (Age 10-20)(Spain dub)
Roser Cavallé as Chiyoko Fujiwara (Age 70)(Spain dub)

Javier Viñas as Genya Tachibana(Spain dub)
Jordi Ribes as Scarman(Spain dub)
José Luis Mediavilla as Kyoji Ida(Spain dub)
Oriol Rafel as Keyman(Spain dub)
Oscar Muñoz as Genya (Young)(Spain dub)
Toni Avilés as Eiko Shimao(Spain dub)

Elsa Fábregas as Specter(Spain dub)
Juan Miguel Valdiviesco as Assistant Director(Spain dub) 
Juan Miguel Valdivieso as Director Assistant(Spain dub)
Paco Gázquez as Junichi Ootaki(Spain dub)
Toni Solanes as
Fortune Teller(Spain dub)
Villager(Spain dub)
Spanish companies
Broadcaster: Buzz Channel (Spain)
DVD Distribution: Selecta Visión
TV Distribution: Selecta Visión
Italian staff
Italian cast
Dialogues: Emanuela Amato
(none)
Italian companies
Broadcaster: Rai 4
German staff
German cast
Dubbing Director: Heinz Freitag
ADR Script: Heinz Freitag
Katrin Zimmermann as Chiyoko Fujiwara(adult - German edition)
Magdalena Turba as Chiyoko Fujiwara(child - German edition)
Regine Albrecht as Chiyoko Fujiwara(old - German edition)
Rita Engelmann as Chiyoko Fujiwara(old - French edition)
Tanja Geke as Chiyoko Fujiwara(adult - French edition)
Victoria Frenz as Chiyoko Fujiwara(child - French edition)

Detlef Bierstedt as Scarface(german dvd)
Diana Borgwardt as Eiko Shimao(French edition)
Erich Räuker as Junichi Ootaki(French edition)
Helmut Gauss as Director(german dvd)
Jürgen Kluckert as Genya Tachibana(German edition)
Liane Rudolph as Mother(german dvd)
Luise Lunow as Old woman(german dvd)
Norman Matt as Schlüsselmann
Robin Kahnmeyer as Junichi Otaki(german dvd)
Timmo Niesner as Kyouji Ida(French edition)
Tobias Kluckert as Tachibana (young)(german dvd)
Wolfgang Condrus as Genya Tachibana(French edition)

Almut Zydra as Female student 1(French edition)
Angela Ringer as Female student 4(French edition)
Barbara Ratthey as Old woman(French edition)
Christin Marquitan as Eiko Shimao(german dvd)
Denise Gorzelanny as Visitor(French edition)
Evelyn Maron as Chiyoko's mother(French edition)
Julia Koberstein as Female student 3(French edition)
Julien Haggege as Schlüsselmeister(german dvd)
Karl Schulz as Chef(French edition)
Karl Heinz Grewe as Minister(French edition)
Norman Matt as Painter(French edition)
Regine Albrecht as Mino(French edition)
Selma Sarstedt as Girl(French edition)
Stefan Krause as Kyouji Ida(German edition)
Thomas Hailer as Fortuneteller(French edition)
Ulrich Müller-Hönow as Assistant(French edition)
Uwe Jellinek as Policeman(French edition)
Viktoria Voigt as Female student 2(French edition)
Werner Ziebig as Space Center Employee(French edition)
German companies
Distributor:
Dreamworks (France release)
Universum-Films (German release)
Dubbing: BERLINER SYNCHRON GMBH Wenzel Lüdecke (German release)
Dutch staff
Dutch companies
(none)
Distributor: Manga DVD
Dutch cast
(none)
Russian staff
Russian companies
(none)
Distributor: MC Entertainment
Russian cast
(none)
Polish staff
Polish companies
(none)
Distributor: IDG Poland S.A.
Polish cast
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) staff
Chinese (Taiwan) companies
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) cast
(none)
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