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Perfect Blue
1997
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 .. Read more
| Director | Satoshi Kon |
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| Genres | Animated, Anime, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Thriller, World Cinema |
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Perfect Blue
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 |
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| Studio | AMAZON WEB |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 30 mins |
| Certificate |  |
| Genres | Animated, Anime, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Thriller, World Cinema |
| Language | DVD: Japanese |
| Dubbed | English |
| Subtitles | DVD: English |
| Released | Production year: 1997 To Rent: DVD: 31 Jul 2000 |
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Based on a novel by Yoshikazu Tekeuchi, this unusual animà follows Polanski's Repulsion into some fairly grown-up... read more on Time Out
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Excellent!
Its almost hard to believe this is an Anime movie, but in the best possible way.
Comparable to Brian de Palma and David Lynch at their best.read more » - 21338
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- 11 Oct 2004 at 11:47
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Fantastic Thriller
What a fantastic thriller. So many twists and turns that you won't know who is the maniac until the very end.. At least, I didn't!! I was hooked ... read more »
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Intelligent and refreshingly different anime
What I thought started out as fairly shoddy and tired looking anime film, opened out in to a well structured and intelligently planned psychological thriller ... read more »
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Top 10 japanese anime movies
Great anime movie. Said to be Darron Aronfsky's inspiration for Black Swan (Mima/Nina etc). One to watch again and again.
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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 ...
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