My Actress/Perfect Blue DVD

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. [show more]

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