Old Woman Ghost: I hate you more than I can bear. And I love you more than I can bear.
The Man of the Key: Then I'll show you that starry, starry sky, like I promised I would.
Kyoji Ida: The crazy old biddy! Hiding herself away like she's some kind of hermit!

[Genya slams a bag into his face]

Genya Tachibana: Next time I kill you.
Kyoji Ida: Don't get your hopes up. She must be over 70 now.

Genya Tachibana: She'll never grow old!
The Man with the Scar: Playing truant are we? Off to meet some human rights agitator?

Chiyoko Fujiwara: I don't understand...

The Man with the Scar: We know it's you. He left you a little memento on the storeroom wall.

Chiyoko Fujiwara: He did?

The Man with the Scar: That's all we need to know. We'll continue at the station.
Eiko Shimao: Better get in there, Genya. The princess is not amused.
Senior Manager of Ginei: Our new movie is in Manchuria, it will cheer our soldiers... and the people of our nation! Certainly... Chiyoko wants serve to her country!

Mother: Perhaps, but this girl is too shy to be an actress, she will find a husband and they will take care of our shop.

[the mother looks to Chiyoko]

Mother: Isn't so?

Senior Manager of Ginei: Is more important for you a candy store than serve to our nation?

Mother: Does a woman does not serve her nation better staying at home and taking care for her children?
Genya Tachibana: [while they see to the Young Chiyoko Running away] Isn't she a sweetie girl?

Kyoji Ida: Even the old people were once young
Kyoji Ida: [while Kyoji and Genya are watching Chiyoko crying at the train station] Man, this is dramatic...

[Koyi surprises when he sees a crying Genya]

Genya Tachibana: [Crying] I cried fifty-three times in this scene!

Kyoji Ida: When did this become a movie?
Senior Manager of Ginei: [the director presents Chiyoko with Eiko] Chiyoko is in the lead

Chiyoko Fujiwara: [Making a reverence] Nice to meet you

Senior Manager of Ginei: I'm sure you recognize to Eiko Shimao, Our main star

Eiko Shimao: [Looking at Chiyoko despectively] Hello, Chieko
Genya Tachibana: [Dressed and acting like a wandering medieval samurai] I always think that I would die for the woman I love.

Kyoji Ida: Maybe I will shoot him
Kyoji Ida: [Noticing that time and location have changed] Now we are in Kyoto! This is going faster than bullet train! This is the Edo period

Genya Tachibana: [appears visibly battered and badly wounded] Hey, Where is Chiyoko?

Kyoji Ida: Aren't you going to change clothes for this age?
Junichi Ootaki: [Talking to the Young Genya] Hey kid, Remember, in this business we're always flattering to the public and actresses, I will teach you that one of these days...
Junichi Ootaki: Chiyoko, a film director is like a painter, a painter puts the colors as he wants on the canvas. And I found a great color for my canvas, This color is you.

Genya Tachibana: [growling] Does he seduce her with a line like that?

Kyoji Ida: [while he's filming to Ootaki and Chiyoko] I should try that line.
Junichi Ootaki: [while he sees to Young Genya getting in to the Set] Hey, Don't stay there! Go and find it!

Genya Tachibana, Genya: Yes sir!

Genya: [He looks to Junichi] Eh... What are we looking for?

Genya Tachibana, Junichi Ootaki: [Genya screams to his young self] The Chiyoko's damn Key!
Genya Tachibana: [a big truck stops in front of Chiyoko, Genya appears dressed and acting like a 60's truck driver] Hey miss, Don't you look when you walk around here?... Come in!

Kyoji Ida: This role of savior makes you happy, huh?
Chiyoko Fujiwara: The full moon...

The Man of the Key: It won't appear tomorrow, but I like This moon better. After the full moon begins to wane. But after fourteen nights, starting tomorrow, I hope to see it again. I gotta go.

Chiyoko Fujiwara: But, you are hurt!

The Man of the Key: My friends are fighting in Manchuria. The painting is not of much help.
Junichi Ootaki: So, Daddy found a new actress.

Eiko Shimao: [Off Camera] Good! You act in a hurry, "Sonny"

Eiko Shimao: [Leaving the room to meet with Chiyoko and Ootaki] So, your name is Chizuko...

Chiyoko Fujiwara: It's Chiyoko
Kyoji Ida: Leaving work behind? That's inappropriate!

Genya Tachibana: You don't understand women

Kyoji Ida: You do?

Kyoji Ida: [Chiyoko reads the newspaper from a man besides her. There's a headline about a clash in Manchuria] But he's a lucky guy, if she follows him to a place so far.

Genya Tachibana: I would like to be him!
Chiyoko Fujiwara: [the action changes to a Japanese feudal castle in flames and Chiyoko appears dressed as a Japanese feudal princess] What is going on?

Kyoji Ida: [Looking around] That's what I wanna know! Where are the bandits?, Where's Manchuria?
Chiyoko Fujiwara: My lord!

[Approaches the body of the lord]

Chiyoko Fujiwara: Why don't you wait for me?

Genya Tachibana: [trying to mourn] I...

Kyoji Ida: Do you cried in all her movies?
Kyoji Ida: [Chiyoko changes from feudal princess, to a ninja Warrior] A princess could do that?
Chiyoko Fujiwara: [Dressed as a Geisha] Have mercy!

Eiko Shimao: [Dressed as the Main Geisha] NO!, I Don't let you go!

Chiyoko Fujiwara: But I will return, I just want to see him and give what belongs Him!

Eiko Shimao: How sweet you are. A man who is going to be executed, does not need anything.
Eiko Shimao: [Eiko and Chiyoko appear dressed as prisoners] Another stupid!, Just tell them what they want to know.

Chiyoko Fujiwara: I can't tell them what I don't know, but won't speak if I knew it. I will never betray him!

Eiko Shimao: Hmpf, You're a little silly! That's what you say now... but the feelings change.

Chiyoko Fujiwara: I will never change! I will love him forever!

Eiko Shimao: Right...
Kyoji Ida: [the location is changed to the bombing of Tokyo in the 40's] Is this a Sci-Fi Movie?

Genya Tachibana: You IDIOT!
Genya Tachibana: [Chiyoko recovers from a fainting] Are you okay?, Do you feel sick?

Chiyoko Fujiwara: [after taking a few medications] Never listen to doctors, they always think that old people are sick.
Chiyoko Fujiwara: [in the 50's ,after seeing photographs of several men] I told you, Don't accept them.

Mother: You're not going to be the "madonna" that everyone knows forever.
[last lines]

Chiyoko Fujiwara: The part I really loved, was chasing him.
Kyoji Ida: [By getting through a group of people at the back of a photograph. Kyoji realizes that among the shadows of the people appears a young man with a very familiar face. Kyoji stops to see him up close] . Hey boss, is that you?

Millennium Actress Quotes

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Millennium Actress short comments

Herminia 2022-03-29 09:01:07

"Anyway, what I really love is chasing his journey." I've always been taught to face reality, and how wonderful it is to have someone in the world to sink into forever. When false is true, true is false, and when true is false, false is true.
Gail 2022-03-23 09:02:52

"Thousands" has a metaphor on the level of Sterling's performance principles. It enters the text space through media replacement to complete the narrative, similar to Bergman's introspection, but it is not simply about film history or the director's personal self-referentiality. Chiyoko and her female identity are constructed metaphors. "Film" and "Studio" imitate and externalize their inner state. Through psychological self-examination, a more macro-level writing of Japan and Japanese women-national living conditions is completed.