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Oct 2, 2022 · Perfect Blue (Japanese: パーフェクトブルー , Hepburn: Pāfekuto Burū) is a 1997 Japanese animated psychological thriller film [4] [5] 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.
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Mima Kirigoe, member of a J-popidol group named "CHAM!", decides to leave the group to become a full-time actress. Many of her fans get frustrated and disappointed by her change from a clean-cut image, particularly an obsessive fan known as Mamoru Uchida or Me-Mania, who starts to stalk her. Following directions from a fan letter, Mima discovers a ...
The following actors in the English adaptation are listed in the credits without specification to their respective roles: James Lyon, Frank Buck, David Lucas, Elliot Reynolds, Kermit Beachwood, Sam Strong, Carol Stanzione, Ty Webb, Billy Regan, Dari Mackenzie, George C. Cole, Syd Fontana, Sven Nosgard, Bob Marx, Devon Michaels, Robert Wicksand Matt...
This film was Satoshi Kon's first directorial effort.It all started when Masao Maruyama, a producer at Madhouse at the time, who had appreciated Kon's work on the OVA JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, contacted him to ask if he would be interested in directing in the fall of 1994.The original author, Yoshikazu Takeuchi, allegedly first planned a live-actio...
Perfect Blue premiered on August 5, 1997, at the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal, Canada,and had its general release in Japan on February 28, 1998. The film was also released on UMD by Anchor Bay Entertainment on December 6, 2005. It featured the film in widescreen, leaving the film kept within black bars on the PSP's 16:9 screen. This release a...
In an analysis of Perfect Blue and Kon's other works, professor Susan Napier states that "Perfect Blue announces its preoccupation with perception, identity, voyeurism, and performance – especially in relation to the female – right from its opening sequence. The perception of reality cannot be trusted, with the visual set up only to not be reality,...
The film was well received critically in the festival circuit, winning awards at the 1997 Fantasia Festival in Montréal, and FantasportoFilm Festival in Portugal. Critical response in the United States upon its theatrical release was also positive. As of September 2023[update], the film had an 83% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 54 revi...
Seven Seas Entertainment obtained the English-language publication rights for the 1991 novel Perfect Blue: Complete Metamorphosis in April 2017.They released them in February and April 2018, respectively.
Official Manga Entertainment website at the Wayback Machine(archived March 9, 2012)Official Rex Entertainment website at the Wayback Machine (archived February 25, 1999) (in Japanese)Aug 20, 1999 · Perfect Blue: Directed by Satoshi Kon. With Junko Iwao, Rica Matsumoto, Shinpachi Tsuji, Masaaki Ôkura. A pop singer gives up her career to become an actress, but she slowly goes insane when she starts being stalked by an obsessed fan and what seems to be a ghost of her past.
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- Animation, Crime, Drama
- Satoshi Kon
- 1999-08-20
Perfect Blue. Perfect Blue is overstylized, but its core mystery is always compelling, as are the visual theatrics. A mysterious figure stalks a pop star when she becomes an actor on a...
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- Satoshi Kon
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- Mystery & Thriller, Anime
Summaries. A pop singer gives up her career to become an actress, but she slowly goes insane when she starts being stalked by an obsessed fan and what seems to be a ghost of her past. Mima leaves the idol group CHAM, in order to pursue her dream as an actress.
Perfect Blue. From Satoshi Kon, this iconic psychological thriller has been hailed as one of the most important animated films of all time. A retired pop singer turned actress' sense of reality is shaken when she is stalked by an obsessed fan. 6,439 IMDb 8.0 1 h 21 min 1999. X-Ray 18+.
282054944. Now available on Blu-Ray, DVD & DigitalOrder it at PerfectBlueMovie.comPERFECT BLUE, the groundbreaking and rarely screened first film from the legendary dir...
