`In the worlds before Monkey Primal Chaos reigned. Heaven sought order. But the Phoenix can fly only when its feathers are grown. The four world's formed again and yet again as endless aeons wheeled and passed. Time and the pure essences of heaven the moisture of the Earth the powers of the sun and the moon worked upon a certain rock old as creation. And it became magically fertile. That first egg was named ""Thought"". Tathagata Buddha the Father Buddha said ""With our thoughts w
A live recording of Johann Sebastian Bach's St John Passion recorded at the Suntory Hall in Tokyo.
Millennium Actress has the stylistic sophistication of Perfect Blue with the empathy warmth and truth of Spirited Away. A gorgeous theatrical animation from the makers of anime classic Perfect Blue and last years' adorable Tokyo Godfathers. Millennium Actress begins as a TV crew track down 70 something screen goddess Chiyoko Fujiwara. Chiyoko begins to tell her life story at which point she literally steps into the past dragging the confused crew into her memories - one moment they're discussing dramatic art the next dodging bullets in the midst of a movie as the boundaries between film memory fact and fiction become a breathless blur. Perfect Blue: Mima was a pop idol worshiped by the masses until fashion dictated otherwise. In order to salvage her ailing career she is advised to drop music and pursue acting. A soap opera role is offered but Mima's character is less clean cut than desired. Regardless she agrees and events take a turn for the worse. She begins to feel reality slip slowly that her life is not her own. She discovers [imagines] her identical twin a mirror image that hasn't given up singing. Internet sites appear describing every intimate detail of her life and a mysterious figure stalks her from the shadows. Her friends and associates are threatened [and killed] as Mima descends into a dangerous world of paranoid delusion. She fears for her life and must unravel fact from fiction in order to stay alive.
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