Release Date | 1998-12-16 |
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Runtime | 145 minutes |
Genres | Animation, Drama |
Stars | Megumi Ogata, Jurota Kosugi, Naoko Matsui, Ryotaro Okiayu |
Directors | Tsuneo Kobayashi, Suzue Miuchi, Masako Goto, Satoshi Hirayama, Satoshi Hirayama |
Kitajima Maya is a young girl from a poor background with no talents of use to school or her widowed mother. However, she is obsessed with movies, theatrical plays and TV dramas-to the point of remembering every line from a movie she's seen once, and dramatically acting out the stories, including every character, for anyone who will listen. One day, she encounters an old woman with a scarred face who claims that Maya is the girl she's been looking for-for the old woman has spent years protecting the rights to a 'legendary' play. (Remake of the first few chapters of the manga for the first tv series that aired in 1984)