Millennium Actress

Millennium Actress
Original Title	千年女優
Original Language	Japanese
Dubbing Studio 1	Village Productions, Ltd.
Dubbing Studio 2	VSI Los Angeles
Voice Director 1	Terry Wilson
Voice Director 2	Kevin Hoffer
Translation & Adaptation	John Vernon
Recorded	2005 2019
Dub Country 1	United Kingdom
Dub Country 2	United States
Original Country	Japan
Year	2001

Millennium Actress (千年女優 Sennen Joyū) is a 2001 Japanese animated drama film co-written and directed by Satoshi Kon and produced by Madhouse.

Synopsis A movie studio is being torn down. TV interviewer Genya Tachibana has tracked down its most famous star, Chiyoko Fujiwara, who has been a recluse since she left acting some 30 years ago. Tachibana delivers a key to her, and it causes her to reflect on her career; as she's telling the story, Tachibana and his long-suffering cameraman are drawn in. The key was given to her as a teenager by a painter and revolutionary that she helped to escape the police. She becomes an actress because it will make it possible to track him down, and she spends the next several decades acting out that search in various genres and eras.

Dubbing History

The film was originally dubbed in 2005 by Village Productions, Ltd. for Manga UK. The dub has only ever been released in the United Kingdom, while releases in the United States were subtitle-only.

In 2019, Eleven Arts gained the rights to the film and produced a new dub for the remastered theatrical screenings on August 13 and 19.

Cast

Image	Character	Seiyū	Dub Actor
			Manga UK	VSI
	Chiyoko Fujiwara	Fumiko Orikasa (Adolescent)	Regina Reagan	Abby Trott
		Mami Koyama (Adult)		Erin Yvette
		Miyoko Shōji (Elderly)		Cindy Robinson
	Genya Tachibana	Masamichi Satō (Young)	John Vernon	Christopher Swindle
		Shōzō Iizuka (Adult)
	Kyōji Ida	Masaya Onosaka	Stuart Milligan	Benjamin Diskin
	Eiko Shimao	Shōko Tsuda	Jo Lee	Laura Post
	Junichi Otaki	Hirotaka Suzuoki	Stephen Bent	Keith Silverstein
	Mino	Tomie Kataoka	Samantha Shaw	Mona Marshall
	Chiyoko's Mother	Hisako Kyōda	Felicity Duncan	Barbara Goodson
	Ginei Senior Executive	Kan Tokumaru	John Vernon	Jamieson Price
	Man with Key	Kōichi Yamadera	David Kitchen	Greg Chun
	Man with Scar	Masane Tsukayama	Matt Devereaux	JP Karliak

Notes

• This is Christopher Swindle's first anime dub not done at Studiopolis.
• Christopher Swindle was incorrectly listed as Christian Swindler in the press release for the VSI dub.
• The film was originally released on DVD in the US in 2003 by DreamWorks Home Entertainment, this release was however subtitle-only.

Video Releases

Distributor	Year	Format	Dub	Region	Country
Manga Entertainment	2005		Manga UK	2 PAL	United Kingdom
Shout! Factory	2019	+	VSI	1 NTSC A DVB-T	United States
	2022			A DVB-T

External Links

• Millennium Actress (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
• Millennium Actress at the Internet Movie Database