Perfect Blue (1997) MOVIE Review

Perfect Blue (Japanese: パーフェクトブルー, Hepburn: Pāfekuto Burū) is a 1997 Japanese animated psychological thriller film directed by Satoshi Kon. It is 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 written 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, gruesome murders begin to occur, and she starts to lose her grip on reality.

Mima Kirigoe, member of a J-pop idol group named "CHAM!", decides to leave the group to become a full-time actress. She gets stalked by an obsessive fan named Me-Mania, who is upset by her change from a clean-cut image. Following directions from a fan letter, Mima discovers a website called "Mima's Room" containing public diary entries written from her perspective, and which has her daily life and thoughts recorded in great detail. During her acting career, she is joined by manager and former pop-idol Rumi Hidaka, and her agent Tadokoro. Mima confides in Rumi about "Mima's Room", but is advised to ignore it.

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[alexwright]

Broadly, never been a fan of anime. Don't hate it, just never was my thing. But in the early 2000s I was at a LAN party and we were bored around 2-3am, maybe "later". A friend had downloaded this but not watched it so I said alright no one else is really up to game. It was an intense watch. I had no idea what I had gotten myself into. It wasn't a gateway or anything for me. It's just a solid piece of work. Haven't seen it since but the experience is sorta just stored away to be accessed from time to time to this day since it was just so different from anything else I'd seen. I have no clue how a fan of this style or genre would feel about it, but as a relative outsider it was really cool.

[scoobyisdead]

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[scoobyisdead]

now related to the video review loved Perfect Blue from start to finish