Film · 2001 · Films · 2000s
Millennium Actress
Scored from 87 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
After the Ginei studio is torn down, documentary maker Genya Tachibana and his cameraman travel to the mountain home of Chiyoko Fujiwara, a legendary actress who withdrew from public life thirty years earlier. Genya returns a key she lost long ago — the one given to her as a teenager by a hunted dissident painter she sheltered from the police and vowed to find. As she recounts her career, her memories and her old film roles blur together, and the interviewers step bodily into the scenes, following her pursuit through feudal castles, wartime Manchuria and outer space. Satoshi Kon's animated drama presents a life and a filmography as one unbroken chase.
Released in 2001, Millennium Actress is an animation, drama and fantasy film. It is rated PG. The runtime is 87 minutes. Its listed language is Japanese. It was made in Japan.
Only 87 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 91 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 709 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,846 2000s films, not against the whole corpus.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where Millennium Actress lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against Films · 2000s (7,847 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 87.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
