今敏的作品经常将幻想和现实揉合让人难以分辨，而且电影的主题也是大多数动画中鲜有涉及的话题。像在《东京教父》(2003)中，今敏就讨论了都市中的无家可归之人，这个话题即使在日本的真人电影中也不多见。而且今敏很多作品中的观点和村上隆的“扁平宣言”有异曲同工之秒。

    Millennium Actress《千年女优》

    Millennium Actress is a 2001 Japanese animated film by director Satoshi Kon and animated by the Studio Madhouse. It tells the story of a documentary filmmaker investigating the life of an elderly actress.

    《千年女优》是由今敏导演、Madhouse工作室在2001年推出的动画电影。它讲述了一个纪录片制作人调查年迈女星一生的故事。

    The film depicts a director, Genya Tachibana, who is working on a documentary about a famous actress, Chiyoko Fujiwara. In her old age, Chiyoko has withdrawn from public life, but Tachibana slowly draws her out. As he talks to her, the story of her life, from teenage schoolgirl to middle-aged superstar, gradually unfolds, illustrated through flashbacks interspersed with segments from her films. Her life spans the tumultuous period surrounding World War II, while her characters in movies span a time period from Sengoku period through a futuristic space age.

    影片描述了导演立花源也记录著名女星藤原千代子的一生 ......