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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)
Genres: drama, romance
Themes: historical
Age rating: Older Children (May contain mild bad language, bloodless violence)
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: 1563 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 526 votes (sub:425, dub:66, raw:9, Ger.dub:5, ?:4, Fre.sub:4, Spa.dub:4, Spa.sub:2, Ita.sub:2, Por.sub:1, Swe.sub:1, edit.dub:1, Rus.dub:1, Fre.edit.dub:1)
 Excellent: 455 votes (sub:379, dub:55, ?:6, raw:4, Ger.dub:4, Rus.dub:2, Por.sub:1, Fre.sub:1, Ita.sub:1, Dut.sub:1, Rus.sub:1)
 Very good: 286 votes (sub:233, dub:37, ?:4, Ger.dub:3, Fre.sub:2, Ita.sub:2, edit.dub:1, Fre.dub:1, Spa.sub:1, Rus.sub:1, raw:1)
 Good: 158 votes (sub:129, dub:21, raw:3, Pol.sub:2, Spa.sub:1, Ita.sub:1, ?:1)
 Decent: 59 votes (sub:47, dub:11, raw:1)
 So-so: 35 votes (sub:23, dub:10, Ger.dub:1, Spa.dub:1)
 Not really good: 12 votes (sub:11, dub:1)
 Weak: 16 votes (sub:12, dub:4)
 Bad: 8 votes (sub:7, dub:1)
 Awful: 4 votes (sub:4)
 Worst ever: 4 votes (sub:3, raw:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 2314 users, rank: #240
Median rating: Excellent
Arithmetic mean: 8.569 (Excellent-.43), std. dev.: 1.6183, rank: #110
Weighted mean: 8.529 (Excellent-.47), rank: #104 (seen all: 8.55 / seen some: 6.91 / won't finish: 5.00)
Bayesian estimate: 8.522 (Excellent-.47), rank: #50
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)
Releases: We have 3
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 3
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Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Satoshi Kon

Screenplay:
Sadayuki Murai
Satoshi Kon

Music: Susumu Hirasawa

Original story: Satoshi Kon

Character Design:
Satoshi Kon
Takeshi Honda

Art director: Nobutaka Ike

Animation director:
Hideki Hamasu
Takeshi Honda

Sound director: Masafumi Mima

Director of Photography: Hisao Shirai

Producer:
Kou Matsuo
Taro Maki

Animation Check: Chieko Ichimanda

Animation Supervisor: Shougo Furuya

Art Designer: Yasumitsu Suetake

Art Supervision:
Kenichi Konishi
Toshiyuki Inoue

Assistant Director of Photography: Katsunori Maehara

Background:
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 Hisano
Yuki Toyonaga
Yuko Orikasa
Yumiko Morimoto

Cinematography: Hisao Shirai

Color design:
Kazunori Hashimoto
Satoshi Hashimoto

Editing: Takeshi Honda

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 Kadamoto
Yuuka Suzuki

Key Animation:
Hiroshi Shimizu
Hirotaka Kinoshita
Hiroyuki Horiuchi
Hitoshi Haga
Jun Takagi
Junko Abe
Katsuichi Nakayama
Kouichi Arai
Kumiko Kawana
Masaharu Tada
Masahiko Kubo
Masahiro Emoto
Masahiro Kurio
Michio Mihara
Michiyo Suzuki
Minoru Murao
Mitsunori Murata
Shinji Otsuka
Tatsuhiro Itano
Tetsuya Kumagai
Tetsuya Nishio
Toshihiro Kikuchi
Yasuhiro Seo
Yasunori Miyazawa
Yoshimitsu Ohashi

Planning: Masao Maruyama

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 

Animation Production: Madhouse Studios

In-Between Animation:
Dr. Movie
SHAFT

Ink & Paint:
Dr. Movie
Kyung Kang ANIA

Production:
Bandai Visual
GENCO
Kadokawa Shoten
WOWOW

Released by: The Klockworx Co., Ltd.

Titles: Maki Productions

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 Pty. Ltd. (Australia)
Manga Entertainment (UK) (UK)

Dubbing: Village Productions (UK)

Licensed by:
Dreamworks
Go Fish Pictures

French staff 
French cast 

Dubbing Director: Guylaine Gibert

 

Delphine Moriau as Chiyoko jeune & adulte

Jacqueline Ghaye as Chiyoko vieille

Arnaud Léonard as L’homme à la cicatrice

Catherine Conet as Eiko

Daniel Nicodème as Genya Tachibana

Philippe Allard as L’homme à la clé

Sébastien Hebrant as Caméraman Kyoji Ida

Tony Beck as Otaki

Frédéric Meaux

Guylaine Gibert

Jean-Marc Delhausse

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)

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

German staff 
German cast 

ADR Script: Heinz Freitag

Director Of Dubbing: 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 
(none)
Dutch companies 

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)
 
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