If you put it in one sentence, the millennium actress is a story about chasing and losing hidden in social changes. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The heroine of the story, Chiyoko Fujiwara, was a superstar in the heyday of the post-war Japan, but the story is told in flashbacks.

In the story of "Millennium Actress", Chiyoko Fujiwara is a popular actress who has swept the country, but she suddenly disappeared from the screen thirty years ago.

The story begins thirty years later in the "search", in the sparsely populated Silent Villa, the male protagonist of the story, Tachibana Gen, also found Chiyoko, who had lived in seclusion for decades, and returned the "key" she accidentally lost back then......

Chiyoko was born during the Great Kanto Earthquake, and grew up in a social environment that was generally biased towards riots and turmoil, and like the most ordinary girl, she yearns for innocent love, and by chance, she falls in love after meeting the male protagonist who is being hunted......

Encounters are always short-lived, but Chiyoko's loyalty to love cannot be questioned for this, and Chiyoko leaves her hometown to embark on the road of finding love with her parting.

She became an actress.

During the first filming, the supervisor told Chiyoko that as long as she blended into the character, the lines would naturally flow out. This sentence implies that Chiyoko is beginning to blur between the unreal and the real.

The "millennium" of the millennium actress refers to the different roles played by Chiyoko that have lasted for thousands of years.

Another actress named Eiko Shimao, who wants to get rid of Chiyoko because she is jealous of her talent, learns something about Chiyoko, and begins to induce Chiyoko, telling her that the person she wants to find is in the "north".

And what exists in the north is actually war.

Chiyoko thought that the person she was looking for was in the middle of a war, so she desperately searched for him, but in the end she found that he was not here, and from this moment on, Chiyoko seemed to sense that maybe she would never find him.

The "key" held by Chiyoko in the story symbolizes her steadfastness in the pursuit, but the conflict of loss and negativity also exists.

After the loss, Chiyoko continued her career as an actress while asking around about his whereabouts. And Eiko once again guides Chiyoko to Kyoto, and this plot reality and deduction are intertwined, which is shown through the plot of the movie played by Chiyoko.

With the help of Genya Tachibana, who had always been in love with Chiyoko, she slipped out of the crew again, and happened to hear the news that "the rebellious samurai had escaped", and got the news of him again.

And he keeps fleeing because he is being hunted down, and Chiyoko is instead confronted by a Scar Policeman, who is aware of the clues. Gen Tachibana also wants to help Chiyoko escape again, but is eventually caught by the Scar Police.

Chiyoko was tortured and interrogated in prison, but Chiyoko didn't reveal anything about him......

In the story that followed, Eiko's image changed, and she and Tachibana Gen also rescued Chiyoko together...... And after Chiyoko was released from prison, he was recaptured.

After the war, Chiyoko began to work hard to make movies, but one day, her "key" was lost, and because of the loss of the symbol of perseverance, Chiyoko felt that her persistence should also be abandoned, so she went to marriage.

In fact, the key was not lost, but stolen by Eiko, and when Chiyoko retrieved the key for the second time, the Scar police also found her.

Police Scar brings Chiyoko a letter from "him" in prison, in which he states that "when the war is over, he will go back to his hometown and finish painting that picture".

And after learning about such a thing, Chiyoko rushed to Hokkaido to look for him, and this is the finishing touch of the story: Chiyoko did not find him, only saw his back in the painting.

In fact, he had already been tortured to death in prison back then, and what Chiyoko was chasing was just an emptiness in the end.

In a subsequent rehearsal, Chiyoko once again lost her key, and this time she couldn't chase her, so she completely gave up the chase and chose seclusion.

And Genya Tachibana, who picked up her key, knew that the man Chiyoko was chasing was dead, so he didn't give her the key, and when he returned the key again, Chiyoko was already seventy years old.

The reason Chiyoko told that she quit the film industry was because she didn't want that person to see her getting old, but more because she was ashamed that she was no longer the one who insisted on chasing.

But after regaining the key, Chiyoko suddenly realizes that it doesn't really matter if she chases him or not, in fact, all she likes is the self who chases him.

Chiyoko rekindles hope, and at the end of the story, after an earthquake, Chiyoko expresses her gratitude to Tachibana Genya for the rest of her life and says goodbye.

At the end of her life, Chiyoko let go of the obsession of pursuit, calmly accepted the glory and loneliness of her life, and admitted that the pursuit of this road was the meaning of all her life.

Chiyoko's character image has some references to actress Setsuko Hara, but Satoshi Kon's character is considered to be the most ordinary person.

The role played by Chiyoko in the story spans the entire history of Japan, her story from the Warring States Period, the Shogunate Period, the Taisho Period to the Showa Period, and her story has also expanded to the maximum extent with one movie after another, human life is short after all, but in such an interpretation, Chiyoko seems to have experienced a thousand years.

"Millennium Actress" interweaves these movie stories with Chiyoko's "real" life encounters, both virtual and real, and the fragments of Japanese history are intertwined in these realities and illusions.

This kind of story mixed with individual characters and events throughout history may not be able to tell it well in some people's lives, but some people seem to be able to easily tell it.

Judging from the ending of the story, Genya Tachibana, who loves Chiyoko, Chiyoko who chases him, and Otaki, the film director who marries Chiyoko, end up with nothing, so the whole story makes people feel depressed and lost.

But in this overall sense, there are still some abnormal other existences, and Chiyoko was calm at the end of her life, so is her life's pursuit really meaningful? Does it really make no sense?

Everyone has different ideas, but Chiyoko admits that she is meaningful.

Satoshi Kon is indeed good at portraying the psychology of characters, and through the cutting of the picture and the interweaving of the times to create a sense of dislocation of time, Chiyoko's life is essentially a depiction and narration of an era, excluding technical factors, the millennium actress is the first strong display of his personal style, and it is also his best work.

Whether it's simply the psychology of word-of-mouth, or the willingness to witness the birth of a masterpiece, or simply from the perspective of appreciation, for Miyahara Shizu, there is no obstacle or burden to support such an animation.