Perfect Blue

1998

1h 22m

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8.3/10

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Rising 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.

Directors

Satoshi Kon

Writers

Sadayuki Murai(screenplay by)

Satoshi Kon(co-writer by)

Yoshikazu Takeuchi(novel by)

Stars

Junko Iwao

Rica Matsumoto

Shiho Niiyama

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Mima Kirigoe (voice)

Rumi (voice)

Rei (voice)

Mamoru Uchida (voice)

Tadokoro (voice)

Yukiko (voice)

Tejima (voice)

Takao Shibuya (voice)

Sakuragi (voice)

Eri Ochiai (voice)

Murano (voice)

Kantoku (voice)

Yada (voice)

Mima's Mother (voice)

Taku (voice)

Child (voice)

Child (voice)

Tadashi Doi (voice)

Directors

Satoshi Kon

Writers

Sadayuki Murai(screenplay by)

Satoshi Kon(co-writer by)

Yoshikazu Takeuchi(novel by)

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7/10

The young "Mima" has a successful, if limited, career singing with a girl band, but she is restless. Her manager insists he can get her an acting job on a popular soap - and that's the way to fame and fortune. Like so many other impressionable young folks, she tries to follow her dream - but is really only following his, and is soon being photographed (intimately), denigrated and her grasp on reality is soon compromised. When things start to take an altogether more sinister turn, though, we start to wonder just who is responsible for a series of murders amongst those known to hold disparaging views on the young woman. Might she be developing some form of lethal schizophrenia or is she (and are they) really the victims of an over-zealous fan. At times this is actually quite harrowing. The plundering of her innocence by those both venal and neglectful of this young woman is writ large and is really quite depressing to watch. The story itself deals frankly with the unsavoury nature of not just exploitation, but of the pressures the constant search for success can put on a developing mind. This packs quite a lot to think about in in eighty minutes, and 25 years on is still a potent watch.

Geronimo196709 Feb, 2023