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Millennium Actress is a Japanese animated film from 2001, inspired by the lives of Hideko Takamine and Setsuko Hara. As a movie studio is being demolized, Genya seeks a reclusive star who left the industry three decades ago. Genya hands her a key, which causes her to reminisce on her time as an actor and share her story with Genya and his cameraman. The key was originally given to her by a revolutionary painter when she was only a teenager. She returned the favor by assisting him in dodging the police and took up acting in order to locate him.

Millennium Actress is a 2001 animated movie with a runtime of 1 hour and 27 minutes. It has received mostly positive reviews from critics and viewers, who have given it an IMDb score of 7.8 and a MetaScore of 70.