All my life, I avoided anime. I didn’t understand the appeal, not in high school, not in college when all of my friends did. Now, over ten years later, just six months ago…something changed in me. I can’t explain it, but I fell headfirst into anime, primarily films. I had always loved Satoshi Kon’s Perfect Blue, and for the longest time that film was the exception to my “no anime” lifestyle. So I decided to pick up his three other films. Millennium Actress was the first film of the bunch I watched, and to say it changed my life is kind of accurate. This film has stuck with me every day since the day I first watched it, it’s profound. It legitimately frightens me to think about how I could have easily gone through life without ever witnessing films like Your Name., A Silent Voice, and Millennium Actress-three films from wildly different directors that deeply impacted me and each taught me something different about myself that I never knew; three films that I, as a film lover, now consider to be not just some of my favorite anime films, but my favorite films of all time. The last time I saw a film that gripped my heart to the point of making me genuinely want to change and become a person was in 2001-2003 with Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy. The most important aspect of humanity, I believe, is our capacity to love each other and share our art. The notion that someone’s art can touch us in such a moving way… It’s amazing. When I think of this film, when I think of Chiyoko’s journey, when I hear this song… I am happy that I am fortunate to be alive in this moment, I’m happy that I lived to experience this. I hope I find myself in Japan one day and am fortunate enough to sit and stare in awe at Mount Fuji and listen to this song on a pair of decent headphones. I think it would bring my soul some peace.
Bu şarkıyı dinlerken aklıma çok mistik, iç açıcı ama aynı zamanda pişmanlıkla koyulaştırılmış manzaralar geliyor. Söylenen dili anlamadan sadece titreşimlerin aktardığı hisler bile çok şey anlatabiliyor. Susumu Hirasawa böyle bir dahi işte.
One of my favourite movies of all time. I havent watched it in about two years, and within 5 seconds of the song started playing i immediately started to cry uncontrollably
Even though the whole movie follows the same “repetitive” premise, namely Chiyoko's life and her pursuit of the painter, I would have loved to see another hour or so of her chasing after him while going through her old movies she once starred in. What a unique movie. Rest in Peace Satoshi Kon
This song was used when the hearse carrying the late Satoshi Kon was leaving. It must have been his intention before he passed away, various Hirasawa songs were played at the funeral.
I wonder that very thing - constantly. I've finally decided that the purpose of my life is to learn to live my life without any sense of purpose. to 'just be myself' - whatever that looks like. And this movie? Utterly brilliant!
The first sentence of this comment is a poem in and of itself. A poem that I relate to completely. Thank you for writing this. I will remember this line!
@@GedMaybury23 i remember on one of my more explosive acid trips, i was pretty out towards the end and i pointed at my old midi keyboard laying on my bed and smiled and said "this is my purpose" and i knew it was stupid but in my acid riddled brain that keyboard represented all electronic music, all the unexplored combinations of tambres, melodies, dynamics, rhythms and harmonies. All the stuff undiscovered for nobody but me to find and only me to express. Unique. Anyways, i kinda felt my purpose was create.
представьте, когда это твоя любимая музыка и смотришь актрису тысячелетия и в конце ни о чем не подозревая слышишь эту песню...все эмоции смешались в одну
I actually had the reverse. I had been listening to the song for years and loved it, and then finally had the opportunity to see Millennium Actress (IN THEATERS) about a month ago, and just listening to Rotation during the closing credits was the most amazing experience ever.
I couldn't agree more. Satoshi Kon's work introduced me to Susumu's music and both of them together give me hope and energy to live in this crazy world. It's how we know they succeeded in their work.
Golden moons rise up by the tens of thousands in the dewy grass and blossom in your dreams - you, beaten down in the prison of this one night Oh dawn, in the space of a single moment, arrive here by the thousands, bearing all your days upon this fleet that sails in parallel You who were surely born like the clouds that float at random and know the meaning of a thousand years - your voice echoes in every moon ※ Blossom, oh flower of rebirth Bloom, oh lotus Echo for a thousand years Resonate in every second The distant past The distant present Even tomorrow is here The Golden days come all at once - if you, who have forgotten, awaken Like a metaphor, it reflects the present of the stars that sail in parallel, with all of you recorded in this field where flowers bloom at random
i've worked with the elderly for quite a few years now and have met some of the kindest most gentle souls imaginable in the work i do. Though it comes with both cognitive and physical debilitation this song and movie quite literally reminds me to always look at the people i see with amazement, they are living testaments whether they know it or not to a past greatly reminded to myself and in it's own ways beautiful lives that here and there i've had the honor of learning about.
The songs from Millennium Actress never fail to make me tear up. Millennium Actress as a while never fails to make me cry multiple times when I rewatch it. I am crying now. lmao.
