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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
United Kingdom Manga UK United States 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.
  • 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.

Video Releases[]

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

References[]

  1. Saabedra, Humberto (July 23, 2019). Eleven Arts Anime Studio Announces English Dub Cast For Millennium Actress Anime Film's Theatrical Screenings. Crunchyroll. Retrieved July 23, 2019.

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