Mami Koyama

  • Satoshi Kon – Sennen joyû AKA Millennium Actress (2001)

    2001-2010AnimationJapanSatoshi Kon

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    A TV interviewer and his cameraman meet a former actress and travel through her memories and career.

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    Behold Millennium Actress, Satoshi Kon’s anime answer to Mulholland Drive. This radical work by the director of Perfect Blue mainlines into a cosmic crawlspace between reality and fantasy from which it never leaves. Kon’s love for his animated diva is supreme and he plays her romantic saga for delirious world-weary sorrow. The genius of Millennium Actress is infinite: the practically monochrome palette that slowly saturates color as the film moves forward in time; the meta-cinematic conceits Kon employs in order to have the film’s male documentary filmmaker penetrate what’s supposedly an older Japanese actress’s recollection of her own past; and the countless rhetorical shifts that evoke the woman’s projection of her romantic melodrama onto her art.Read More »

  • Katsuhiro Ôtomo – Akira (1988)

    1981-1990AnimationJapanKatsuhiro OtomoSci-Fi

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    A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath who can only be stopped by two teenagers and a group of psychics.Read More »

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