News Summary

• Millennium Actress is now available to watch for free on YouTube in the United States.
• The 2001 animated movie is the follow-up to Satoshi Kon's masterful Perfect Blue.
• The film follows Chiyoko Fujiwara, a retired actress who is giving an interview.
• The actress recalls meeting a political artist who was on the run from police in her early life, and her search for him remains central to plot throughout the remainder of the film..
• Until his untimely death in 2010, the director and artist lent his talents to nine feature-length films during his career, the four most successful of which he did as director.
• He also directed one TV anime series, the 2006 psychological thriller cult classic Paranoia Agent.