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8.3Rising pop star Mima quits singing to pursue a career as an actress. After she takes up a role on a popular detective show, her handlers and collaborators begin turning up murdered. Harboring feelings of guilt and haunted by visions of her former self, Mima's reality and fantasy meld into a frenzied paranoia.
Cast
- Junko Iwao as Mima Kirigoe (voice)
- Rica Matsumoto as Rumi (voice)
- Shiho Niiyama as Rei (voice)
- Masaaki Okura as Mamoru Uchida (voice)
- Shinpachi Tsuji as Tadokoro (voice)
- Emiko Furukawa as Yukiko (voice)
Themes
- career
- based on novel or book
- paranoia
- stalker
- celebrity
- singer
- fame
- female protagonist
- psychological thriller
- mental illness
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Perfect Blue
- Score
- 8.56/10 (445,563 votes)
- Rank
- #134
- Popularity
- #272
- Type
- Movie
- Episodes
- 1
- Status
- Finished Airing
- Studios
- Madhouse
J-pop idol group CHAM! has spent the last two years entertaining its fans. Sadly, all good things must come to an end, and CHAM! must see one of its members, Mima Kirigoe, leave the group to pursue her acting career. While Mima's choice is met with a mixed response, she hopes her…
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Satoshi Kon
- Screenplay by
- Sadayuki Murai
- Based on
- Perfect Blue: Complete Metamorphosis , by Yoshikazu Takeuchi
- Produced by
- Masao Maruyama Hitomi Nakagaki Yoshihisa Ishihara Yutaka Tōgō Hiroaki Inoue
- Starring
- Junko Iwao Rica Matsumoto Shiho Niiyama Masaaki Okura Shinpachi Tsuji Emiko Furukawa
- Cinematography
- Hisao Shirai
- Edited by
- Harutoshi Ogata
- Music by
- Masahiro Ikumi
- Production company
- Madhouse
- Distributed by
- Rex Entertainment
- Release dates
- August 5, 1997 ( 1997-08-05 ) ( Fantasia ) February 28, 1998 ( 1998-02-28 ) (Japan)
- Running time
- 81 minutes
- Country
- Japan
- Language
- Japanese
- Budget
- ¥90 million ( US$830,442 )
- Box office
- $3 million , €572,669 (Italy rerelease)
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Encyclopedic overview
Perfect Blue (Japanese: パーフェクトブルー, Hepburn: Pāfekuto Burū) is a 1997 Japanese animated psychological horror film directed by Satoshi Kon. It is loosely based on the novel Perfect Blue: Complete Metamorphosis (パーフェクトブルー：完全変態, Pāfekuto Burū: Kanzen Hentai) by Yoshikazu Takeuchi, with a screenplay by Sadayuki Murai. Featuring the voices of Junko Iwao, Rica Matsumoto, Shiho Niiyama, Masaaki Okura, Shinpachi Tsuji and Emiko Furukawa, the plot follows a member of a Japanese idol group who retires from music to pursue an acting career. As she becomes a victim of stalking by her obsessive fan, gruesome murders take place, and she begins losing her grip on reality. The film deals with the blurring of the line between fantasy and reality, a commonly found theme in Kon's other works, such as Millennium Actress (2001), Paranoia Agent (2004), and Paprika (2006).
The film garnered critical acclaim and is now regarded as a masterpiece of animation and one of the best anime films of all time.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Perfect Blue” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.