Perfect Blue

1997
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Title: Perfect Blue

Original Title: Pâfekuto burû

Year: 1997

Info

Release Dates

  • UK: March 21 1999
  • United States: August 20 1998

Plot

Mima was a pop idol, worshipped by the masses until fashion dictated otherwise. In order to salvage her career, she is advised to drop music and pursue acting. A soap opera role is offered but Mima's character is less clean cut than desired. Regardless, she agrees and events take a turn for the worse. She begins to feel reality slip, that her life is not her own. She discovers (imagines) her identical twin, a mirror image that hasn't given up singing. Internet sites appear describing every intimate detail of her life and a figure stalks her from the shadows. Her friends and associates are threatened (and killed) as Mima descends into a dangerous world of paranoid delusion. She fears for her life and must unravel fact from illusion in order to stay alive. Perfect Blue represents a major change from traditional anime subject matter, analysing the pop icon phenomenon, fame and its psychological impact on the performer.

Director:

Satoshi Kon Satoshi Kon

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Trivia

Live-action

The film was originally conceived as a live-action feature, but became an anime when several backers abruptly pulled out in pre-production.

Choreography

The choreography from Mina's group CHAM are not in unison. This is intentional to keep the realism of the film.

Reference

Darren Aronofsky owns the American Fliming rights to Perfect Blue, which he purchased for $59,000 to use the infamous "bath scene," in his film 'Requiem for a Dream'.

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