IMDb:https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0464804/
Date of Birth:12 October 1963, Kushiro, Hokkaido, Japan
Date of Death:24 August 2010, Tokyo, Japan (pancreatic cancer)
Trademarks:Sometimes includes a spoof of Akira Kurosawa's films (Sennen joyû (2001)) or Kurosawa himself (Papurika (2006)). Frequently uses Tokyo as the backdrop in his movies [mystery] Often features a main protagonist who is involved with a mystery. [psychology] Sometimes has a character or a group of characters with psychological problems: _Perfect Blue (1998)_, Môsô dairinin (2004), Papurika (2006). Sometimes uses Susumu Hirasawa as the composer [posters] Frequently includes at least one poster in the background of a made up movie/tv show of his own. [surrealism] Frequently includes a character experiencing a sequence that doesn't comply with logic. [multiple personality disorder] Sometimes includes a character with a split personality: _Perfect Blue (1998)_, Môsô dairinin (2004), Papurika (2006). Often depicts a character who secretly looking for a place to hide from his own failings. [chasing] Always including his protagonists in a chase scene [hospital] A brief or multiple visits to a hospital Sometimes includes a stabbing scene Likes to feature human characters who are designed to look realistic, with the exception of _Papurika (2011)_.
Mima leaves the idol group CHAM, in order to pursue her dream as an actress. Mima climbs up the rocky road to success by performing as rape victims and posing nude for magazines, but is haunted by her reflections of the past.
A movie studio is being torn down. TV interviewer Genya Tachibana has tracked down its most famous star, Chiyoko Fujiwara, who has been a recluse since she left acting some 30 years ago. Tachibana delivers a key to her, and it causes her to reflect on her career; as she's telling the story, Tachibana and his long-suffering cameraman are drawn in. The key was given to her as a teenager by a painter and revolutionary that she helped to escape the police. She becomes an actress because it will make it possible to track him down, and she spends the next several decades acting out that search in various genres and eras. -Jon Reeves