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From critically acclaimed director Satoshi Kon comes the award-winning masterpiece, Millennium Actress. Known for his remarkable visual style, Kon seamlessly blends fantasy and reality into an exciting epic adventure of fate and destiny. Past and present collide as a film director discovers a mysterious key that unlocks the secrets of a legendary actress who vanished at the height of her brilliant career. —DreamWorks

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Satoshi Kon

Satoshi Kon is a film director from Kushiro, Hokkaidō, Japan. Kon attended Musashino College of the Arts and intended to become a painter. After college, he worked with Katsuhiro Otomo on the manga World Apartment Horror. Kon entered the anime industry by working as set designer for Roujin Z (1991), for which Otomo was the screenwriter and mechanical designer. Kon’s early work was strongly influenced by Otomo due to Kon’s experience with him. Afterwards, Kon made his screenwriting debut with Magnetic Rose, a section of the anthology film Memories.

In 1997, Satoshi Kon released his directorial debut film Perfect Blue, which was turned into a feature film from an original video animation in the middle of production. His next film, Millennium Actress, was released in 2001 to several film festivals and won numerous awards. Having created two films that blend dreams and reality, Kon decided to work on a more linear and traditional… read more

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Laura Hilton-Smith

12May12

A beautiful story told in an unusual and interesting way. Films like this help to prove that anime is a legitimate and creative genre.

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daniel

15Jun11

It is still a shock to me that Mr. Kon is gone. He is a master in his own right and who knows the amount of amazing films he would have come up with in his limitless imagination. He's given a piece of himself to us in the form of his works. The least we can do as spectator is pass it on to those who are not familiar with it.

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Berjuan

9Jun11

Maybe Kon's greatest masterpiece.

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Rashed

7Jun11

everything you could ever want in a movie is here. i feel satoshi kon is one of the few directors of the 00's who understands and captures the joy of filmmaking; both in production and presentation to the audience.

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Satoshi Kon, 1963 - 2010

By David Hudson on August 24, 2010

The news that groundbreaking anime director Satoshi Kon has passed away at the age of 47 was initially met with skepticism, but many are

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