Overview:
Encouraged by her managers, rising pop star Mima takes on a recurring role on a popular TV show, when suddenly her handlers and collaborators begin turning up murdered.| Original Title: | PERFECT BLUE |
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| Status: | Released (1998-02-28) |
| Awards: | 3 wins & 3 nominations total |
| BoxOffice: | $558,598 |
| Screen: | Yoshikazu Takeuchi, Sadayuki Murai, Satoshi Kon |
| Productions: | Madhouse, Rex Entertainment, Kotobuki Seihan Printing, Asahi Broadcasting Corporation, Fangs Co. |
| Production Countries: | Japan |
| Spoken Languages: | 日本語 |
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Casts
- 65437: Junko Iwao - Mima Kirigoe (voice)
- 65424: Rica Matsumoto - Rumi (voice)
- 553949: Shiho Niiyama - Rei (voice)
- 1685: Masaaki Okura - Mamoru Uchida (voice)
- 65438: Shinpachi Tsuji - Tadokoro (voice)
- 553950: Emiko Furukawa - Yukiko (voice)
- 84509: Yosuke Akimoto - Tejima (voice)
Crews
- 40333: Satoshi Kon - Director - Directing
- 65439: Hiroaki Inoue - Producer - Production
- 65441: Sadayuki Murai - Screenplay - Writing
- 65442: Masahiro Ikumi - Music - Sound
- 12186: Hisao Shirai - Director of Photography - Camera
- 65443: Harutoshi Ogata - Editor - Editing
- 107855: Hideki Futamura - Key Animation - Visual Effects
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Reviews
Marr 🇳🇱
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Just seen this on All Hallows' Eve. It's a bit old, but gold! I definitely have to rewatch this, because you just got to pay attention to 'know' what is happening and follow the story. I think you'd better understand/follow the story and that it will make more sense when you watch it ....
Continue reading ->The Movie Diorama
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Perfect Blue perfectly blends psychologically disturbed fantasy with grounded reality. Mima Kirigoe. A pop-idol. An actress. An X-rated model. Public image and its personifying echoes circulate around the world, adhering to the desires of endearing fans alike. But when their inspirat ....
Continue reading ->GenerationofSwine
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I caught this in High School and it instantly took me as an eerie Alfred Hitchcock show that did an outstanding job of feeding on pure paranoia. It was unsettling, it was scary, and at the time it seemed as realistic as it could be for an anime movie. As I rode through it, I st ....
Continue reading ->CinemaSerf
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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 dre ....
Continue reading ->griggs79
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Perfect Blue, a cult anime film that remains as relevant today as it was when it was first released, follows the story of a teenage girl on the brink of insanity. Its exploration of unsettling themes such as consent and exploitation may make for uncomfortable viewing, but it's a star ....
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