Plot summary

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. Written by Jon Reeves

Cast of Sennen joyû

	Miyoko Shôji	...	Chiyoko Fujiwara (70's) (voice)
	Mami Koyama	...	Chiyoko Fujiwara (20-40's) (voice)
	Fumiko Orikasa	...	Chiyoko Fujiwara (10-20's) (voice)
	Shôzô Îzuka	...	Genya Tachibana (voice)
	Shouko Tsuda	...	Eiko Shimao (voice)
	Hirotaka Suzuoki	...	Junichi Ootaki (voice)
	Hisako Kyôda	...	Mother (voice)
	Kan Tokumaru	...	Senior Manager of Ginei (voice)
	Tomie Kataoka	...	Mino (voice)
	Masamichi Sato	...	Genya (voice)
	Masaya Onosaka	...	Kyoji Ida (voice)
	Masane Tsukayama	...	The Man with the Scar (voice)
	Kôichi Yamadera	...	The Man of the Key (voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
	Stephen Bent	...	Junichi Otaki (voice: English version)
	Matt Devereaux	...	Man with Scar (voice: English version)
	Felicity Duncan Smith	...	Mother (voice: English version) (as Felicity Duncan)
	Takkô Ishimori	...	Head Clerk (voice)
	David Kitchen	...	Man with the Key (voice: English version)
	Jo Lee	...	Shimao Eiko (voice: English version)
	Stuart Milligan	...	Ida Kyoji (voice: English version)
	Regina Reagan	...	Chiyoko (Manga Entertainment 2005) (voice: English version)
	Samantha Shaw	...	Mino (voice: English version)
	John Vernon	...	Tachibana, Senior Executive (voice: English version)