Perfect Blue
1998 · TMDB 8.3 · PERFECT BLUE
Directed by Satoshi Kon
Rising pop star Mima Kirigoe 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.
Why it matters
Kon's animated psychological thriller about Mima, a pop idol who quits singing to become an actress, only to be stalked by an obsessive fan and haunted by a doppelgänger. The film's seamless blending of reality, fantasy, and delusion, achieved through match cuts, shifting aspect...
From The Architecture of Obsession: Cinema of the Fixated Mind
- Runtime
- 81 min
- Released
- 1998-02-28
- Studio
- Madhouse
- Country
- Japan
- Language
- Japanese
- TMDB score
- 8.3
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