Millennium Actress

The magic of movies, the mystery of memory.

A dreamlike, visually stunning meditation on memory, cinema, and the blurred boundary between a woman's life and the films she inhabited, told through nested narratives that collapse past and present.

Documentary filmmaker Genya Tachibana has tracked down the legendary actress Chiyoko Fujiwara, who mysteriously vanished at the height of her career. When he presents her with a key she had lost and thought was gone forever, the filmmaker could not have imagined that it would not only unlock the long-held secrets of Chiyoko’s life... but also his own.