Satoshi Kon’s works continue to come out in small doses and the next one to land will be Millennium Actress as Bandai Visual Japan has set a February 21st, 2014 release date for it. The feature, which was released in North America by DreamWorks back in 2003, will be priced at 6090yen and will feature the 87 minute feature with four minutes of extras (trailers, TV spots) as well as a feature lengthy commentary track by Satoshi Kon, sound director Masafumi Mima, and Chiyoko Fujiwara’s voice actresses Miyoko Shoji, Mami Koyama, and Fumiko Orikasa which was used in the previous DVD limited edition set years ago. The feature itself will provide a 5.1 mix in Dolby TrueHD as well as the original stereo mix in PCM. The transfer is working off of a new telecine print.
Plot concept: Chiyoko Fujiwara was once a major movie star who dominated the Japanese cinema world. Thirty years ago, she abruptly disappeared from the screen and public view.
One of her greatest admirers, Genya Tachibana, is a documentary filmmaker who has traveled to the isolated mountain lodge where she makes her home to interview her. There, he presents her with an old key, and as if they key had opened a door to her memories, Chiyoko starts telling the story of her life, interweaving moments from her past and future and passing through the boundary between reality and the movies that had made up so much of her life.
[Source: Millennium Actress]
