Title: Perfect Blue
Original Title: Pâfekuto burû
Year: 1997
Info
- Country: Japan
- Length: 80 Minutes (1 hour 20 min)
- Genre: Animation Thriller Horror
- Studios: Rex Entertainment Madhouse
- Distributor: Selecta Visión
- Age rating: 18 (Suitable only for adults)
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.
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Videos
'Perfect Blue' English Dubbed Trailer
August 29 2016
'Perfect Blue' Japanese Original Trailer
August 29 2016
Photos
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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