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Perfect Blue (1997) 7.6
A retired pop singer turned actress' sense of reality is shaken when she is stalked by an obsessed fan and seemingly a ghost of her past. Director:Satoshi Kon |
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Cast
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Junko Iwao | ... |
Mima
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Rica Matsumoto | ... |
Rumi
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Shinpachi Tsuji | ... |
Tadokoro
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Masaaki Ôkura | ... |
Uchida
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Yôsuke Akimoto | ... |
Tejima
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Yoku Shioya | ... |
Shibuya
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Hideyuki Hori | ... |
Sakuragi
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Emi Shinohara | ... |
Eri
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Masashi Ebara | ... |
Murano
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Kiyoyuki Yanada | ... |
Kantoku
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Tôru Furusawa | ... |
Yada
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Shiho Niiyama | ... |
Rei
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Emiko Furukawa | ... |
Yukiko
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Aya Hara | ... |
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Shin'ichirô Miki | ... |
Taku
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Mima leaves the idol group CHAM, in order to pursue her dream as an actress. Mima climbs up the rocky road to success by performing as rape victims and posing nude for magazines, but is haunted by her reflections of the past. Written by <H@jime>
Taglines:
excuse me...who are you? See more »Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
Rated R for animated sequences of violence and nudity, and for brief language | See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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Country:
JapanLanguage:
JapaneseRelease Date:
28 February 1998 (Japan) See more »Also Known As:
Pâfekuto burû See more »Box Office
Budget:
JPY 3,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$9,600 (USA) (20 August 1999)Gross:
$99,389 (USA) (17 December 1999)Company Credits
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Mima Kirigoe: I am Mima!
Mima's Ghost: [laughter] That's funny. Mima is a pop idol... and you're just a dirty old imposter
Mima Kirigoe: You're the imposter! I'm not gonna take this anymore!
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Music by Masahiro Ikumi
Lyrics by Kiko Imai
Performed by Misa, Emiko Furukawa and Mie Shimizu
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Did You Know?
Trivia
The "Big Body" pizza box in the infamous stabbing scene usually gets a few chuckles from English-speaking viewers, who are no doubt thinking about the food's fat content. However, "Big Body" is actually an homage to Susumu Hirasawa (who would later compose music for Millennium Actress and Paranoia Agent, also by director Kon) and his electronically band "P-Model." Big Body is the name of their tenth album, released in 1993. See more »Goofs
In the English dub version, Cham sings their song at the beginning in English. Later on, when the writer is waiting for the elevator, the radio is playing the song in Japanese. See more »Quotes
Mima's Ghost: Let's end all of this. We don't need two Mimas now, do we?Mima Kirigoe: I am Mima!
Mima's Ghost: [laughter] That's funny. Mima is a pop idol... and you're just a dirty old imposter
Mima Kirigoe: You're the imposter! I'm not gonna take this anymore!
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Soundtracks
"Ai no tenshi"Music by Masahiro Ikumi
Lyrics by Kiko Imai
Performed by Misa, Emiko Furukawa and Mie Shimizu
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Mima Kirigoes is part of a young idol group Cham, but she decides to move on and kick-start a career as an actress with some help by her pressuring agent. To change her image, she accepts some confronting roles, which eventuates into her downward spiral between realities and virtual. She discovers an Internet site that knows her every move and those responsible for growing success in the acting industry end up brutally killed.
Well, what can I say? Simply, I forgot that I originally saw this wonderfully, stunning anime picture before. I don't know how it left my mind, because it's very chilling and effective across the board. Based on Yoshikazu Takeuchi's novel, "Perfect Blue" is an intoxicatedly, shocking psychological thriller that does resemble some works of Lynch, Polanski, De Palma and rightly so, Hitchcock. Even a giallo imprint shines heavily within the mixture.
The mature plot boldly plays it cards at a mild pace and eventually forms a structure like a rubrics cube. I wouldn't go out of my way to call it complicated, but there's stylish imagination and cerebral details that gladly doesn't fall into a convoluted mess. The characters' persona's are well defined and emotionally attachable. It can turn into an uncomfortable ride, where dazzling images of fact and fiction skews into one. You can't help but get those disorientating spells that the distraught Mima succumbs to on her journey to find her feet as an mature entertainer. Where her dreams become her anxiety, as she's too sensitive to how she's being perceived then being her true self. Her clean-cut image becomes tainted and a growing obsession towards her takes its tole on her fractured and vulnerable mind.
Paranoia, delusions and a dreamlike air are cooked up with an array of tension and creepy visuals. The animation isn't a visual goldmine, but its showered with powerfully focused and flashed up images that manage to keep the viewer at bay. The pressure building dialogues are quite biting, and the revealing twist catches you off guard because of the superb use of artificial dreams with its fast editing and exhilaratingly moody soundtrack.
You don't have to be a fan of animation to enjoy this piece. So, if you come across it, give it a chance.