Millennium Love

Bell 2022-03-23 09:02:52

"You saved me, but I couldn't return it, but I always keep it in my heart. I want to see you soon, the war is intensifying, and when the war is over, I will return to the era of peace, and I will go back to my hometown, Hokkaido, to complete this painting. Painting, at that time, will let you see the dazzling starry sky, in the place agreed with you... In the vast, white scenery, there will be a wonderful feeling of existence in another distant planet."
Chiyoko does not Knowing that when she received this letter, the person she had been looking for was no longer alive.
Since saving that person, Chiyoko has kept the key that he accidentally left behind. She remembers that on the night she rescued him, he said to her, "This is the key to the most important thing." So she always took it with her wherever she went.
"I...I really want to see him."
"He's in Kyoto!"
"I must go back to His Highness..."
"That person must be alive!"
"I'm going to find him."
"Now and every day , I'm in love with that person."
"That person is waiting for me."
"Wait, please wait, wait~"
"I'm going to find you, no matter where you are."
"Agreed, I said Be sure to find him..."
Chiyoko Fujiwara in the film was a superstar in the heyday of the Japanese Silver Screen Film Company after the war. She played all over Japanese history, from the Warring States Period, the Shogunate Period, the Taisho Period, the Showa Period, and all the great eras. It also covers all types of Japanese movies, including costume period dramas, war espionage dramas, post-war period dramas and sci-fi dramas. In the films she played, these lines were spoken by her, as if they were confessions to her loved ones in reality.
"Tomorrow is the full moon, the moon on the 14th, and tomorrow, tomorrow is hope" he said to her. He said very little, the time with him was so short, and before he could thank her, he had to leave because of the arrest. But Chiyoko spent her whole life looking for this person, and she didn't even know his name. "I took such an important key, and I want to return it to him." This is Chiyoko's promise to herself and her promise to love. So she kept looking for him, acting because maybe he could see her, her humble and persistent love, and she didn't even know that the person she had been chasing had already been killed.
"Millennium Actress" interweaves Chiyoko's film story with her real life encounters, both false and real. The thousand-year history of Japan whizzes past in the interweaving of reality and illusion, and the plot connects Chiyoko's life with Japan's Combined with the big environment at that time, it created a fantastic, beautiful and tear-jerking legendary story.
At the end of the film, if Chiyoko realizes something when she is dying, she said, it doesn't matter what the result is, because I have been chasing him because I like him... Seeing this, I suddenly remembered that Chiyoko's homeland was bombed Afterwards, she found a wall in the ruins that had not collapsed, with her portrait on it, with a line on the edge of the portrait - there will be a reunion.

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Extended Reading
  • Deron 2022-03-20 09:02:28

    The dreamlike sea of ​​shadows shuttles, and the unconstrained (anti) narrative structure, the first sight is a thousand years. "What I really love is the journey to chase him", about love, just love, a love letter signed by Jin Min. (The talent of the director is so breathtaking, watch one less one!!!)

  • Roselyn 2022-03-19 09:01:07

    Maybe she loves him because of his absence, his loss, and even he must die to be a qualified set, fulfilling her passionate pursuit and sacrifice. Does the world only love to eulogize tragedies and appreciate the incompleteness? Isn't a satisfactory life so mediocre for us, so not worth living through?

Millennium Actress quotes

  • 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.