Sennen Joyuu

As an old film studio faces demolition, documentary filmmaker Genya Tachibana sets out to record the memories of its celebrated former star, Chiyoko Fujiwara, who retired thirty years earlier. Accompanied by cameraman Kyoji Ida, he visits her secluded home and returns an old key that unlocks memories of her past.

Chiyoko recalls her early acting career and a brief encounter with an artist whose memory shaped a lifelong search. Her recollections blend with the roles she played, carrying her visitors through different eras of cinema and personal history until the boundaries between performance and lived experience become inseparable.