Millennium Actress

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 released on DVD in the US in 2003 by DreamWorks Home Entertainment, this release was however subtitle-only. Manga UK sublicensed the film from DreamWorks in 2005 alongside Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence and produced an English dub at Village Productions, Ltd. This dub would only be released in the United Kingdom however, and has since gone out of print.

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.^[1] This dub would be recorded at VSI Los Angeles.

Cast[]

Image	Character	Seiyū	Dub Actor
Image	Character	Seiyū	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
	Genya Tachibana	Shōzō Iizuka (Adult)	John Vernon	Christopher Swindle
	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.
In Manga Entertainment's dub, Regina Reagan voices Chiyoko Fujiwara as an adolescent, adult and elder, unlike the Japanese version and Eleven Arts' dub, which had the role split between three actors.