Genre: Fantasy, Romance, Animation, Drama, Comedy, Anime, Epic, Love, Ninjas
Plot: Chiyoko Fujiwara was once a major movie star who dominated the Japanese cinema world. Thirty years ago, she abruptly disappeared from the screen and from public view. One of her greatest admirers, Genya Tachibana, is a documentary filmmaker who has traveled to the isolated mountain lodge where she makes her home to interview her. There, he presents her with an old key, and as if the key had opened a door to her memories, Chiyoko starts telling the story of her life, interweaving moments from her past and future and passing through the boundary between reality and the movies that had made up so much of her life.As her story unfolds, Chiyoko seems to transcend time and space, traveling freely through the corridors of fictional movies and reality. Chiyoko was born when the Great Earthquake hit Tokyo in 1923, as war is looming in Imperial Japan. At a very young age, she is discovered as an actress, and soon becomes one of Japan’s most popular stars. Over the course of her career, her movies and her roles encompass all the epochs of Japanese history, bringing her and her audience back more than five hundred years, and then moving chronologically through the centuries to the present and beyond. Chiyoko’s first major role finds her in the Warring States Period of the 15th and 16th
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| Sadayuki Murai
Perfect Blue, Steamboy, Umezu Kazuo: Kyôfu gekijô - Mushi-tachi no ie |
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| | | Shôzô Îzuka
Tokyo Godfathers, Wings of Honneamise, Tobidasu rittai eiga: Inazuman | | Hirotaka Suzuoki
Wings of Honneamise, Urotsukidoji I: Legend Of The Overfiend, Chôjikû yôsai Macross: Ai oboeteimasuka | Hisako Kyôda
Warriors of the Wind, Escaflowne, Inuyasha - Toki wo koeru omoi | |
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