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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 worse. She begins to feel reality .. Read more

Director	Satoshi Kon
Genres	Animated, Anime, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Thriller, World Cinema

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- Based on a novel by Yoshikazu Tekeuchi, this unusual animÃ follows Polanski's Repulsion into some fairly grown-up... read more on Time Out
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- - Time Out
  - 04 Nov 2008 at 00:13
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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.
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  - Paul Baker
  - Bishops Stortford - England
  - 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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  - Cheshire
  - 30 Oct 2011 at 13:52
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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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  - scratlin
  - 39 reviews
  - Bristol
  - 19 Oct 2011 at 14:46
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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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- - HappaNinja
  - 3 reviews
  - 19 Sep 2011 at 12:47
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  PERFECT GORE
  
  A psychological thriller about excessive celebrity fan-mania coupled with a need to avoid type-casting so that performers can expand and develop their careers. ... read more »
  
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  - TUNBRIDGE WELLS, ENGLAND
  - 23 Jan 2011 at 14:20
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  Perfect Blue
  
  Good Points:
  
  - Strong Narrative & characters
  
  - Original touches to the animation
  
  - Very watchable
  
  - Kept you ... read more »
  
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- - filmophile
  - 4 reviews
  - Bath
  - 25 Oct 2010 at 22:33
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  A Fitting Tribute To The Late Satoshi Kon
  
  The 'Hitchcock of Japan' passed away after a short fight with pancreatic cancer on the 24/August/ 2010. This means Japanese anime has lost one of it'... read more »
  
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- - Mohawk52
  - 10 reviews
  - Basingstoke
  - 26 Aug 2010 at 10:21
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  - 0
  Clever start, depressingly sexist ending
  
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  The author's work is usually better than this, but Perfect Blue is a let-down.
  
  The plot gives us an exciting opening: Mima, former girl-band pop ... read more »
  
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  - London
  - 10 May 2010 at 16:27
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  Bubblegum Hitchcock anyone?
  
  A really weird blend of ultra irritating pop façade descending into Hitchcock-esque flashback/madness before going the whole hog into slasher Argento! ... read more »
  
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- - jesuskenevil
  - 194 reviews
  - Bruton
  - 28 Jan 2010 at 20:52
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  Perfect Blue
  
  Tedius. I was unable to watch the whole movie as I could think of many better things to do with my time.
  
  The sense of menace was there but the ... read more »
  
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- - Patrick
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  - Hereford
  - 28 Oct 2009 at 16:48
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  Perfect Poo
  
  Very rare to find a Japanese animation that doesn't work but here we have one such. Starts well but gets increasingly disjointed and ultimately becomes ... read more »
  
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  - 2nd row from the back, Lincolnshire
  - 02 Sep 2008 at 20:56
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- - 18
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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.
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  - Paul Baker
  - Bishops Stortford - England
  - 11 Oct 2004 at 11:47
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  Perfect Blue
  
  If David Lynch made anime he may well have come up with Perfect Blue.
  
  This film is many things: a Hitchcockian thriller, a scathing indictment of the... read more »
  
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- - SAI81
  - 360 reviews
  - Tonbridge
  - 18 Mar 2007 at 22:29
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  Promising anime let down by a poor script...
  
  Mima is a young singer in a pop band that has yet to become successful. When offered a role in a TV series she decides to change her career with unforseen ... read more »
  
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- - ThomasKus
  - 143 reviews
  - Gloucester
  - 22 Jan 2004 at 16:19
- - 5
  - 0
  You bad girl... you have to follow the script!
  
  Directed by Satoshi Kon Perfect Blue is a psychological thriller anime following the life of Mima, an actress that has recently left her teeny bop pop idol ... read more »
  
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  - Cardiff, Wales
  - 30 Oct 2007 at 22:45
- - 5
  - 2
  Cartoon stalkability
  
  It’s a perennial question, isn’t it? How to respond when your favourite member of a bubblegum girl-pop trio sacrifices her evanescent slices of feel... read more »
  
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- - nicola6
  - Cambridgeshire
  - 07 Mar 2004 at 20:18
- - 4
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  Great story, great animation
  
  I haven't seen a lot of anime, so I thought I'd rent a few, and this one came first. I can't make much of a comparison with other titles, but on its... read more »
  
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  - Portadown, Northern Ireland
  - 10 Mar 2005 at 09:06
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  Scary psychological cartoon
  
  This film was wonderful but could have been more effective as a story with real actors instead of animated ones. This is not because of the animation (which is ... read more »
  
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  - Leeds
  - 29 Nov 2004 at 10:32
- - 3
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  one for David Lynch fans
  
  The story seems straightforward enough with a girl in a pop trio deciding to leave behind the music world to make it as an actress, suddenly the group she left ... read more »
  
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- - Saty
  - Reading
  - 20 Dec 2004 at 22:39
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  Incredible
  
  This Anime does certainly show it's age, but it does have a very good sense of flow.
  
  It's very hard to wright anything down, without giving ... read more »
  
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- - Daemos
  - 4 reviews
  - Norwich
  - 22 Apr 2008 at 22:18
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  Clever start, depressingly sexist ending
  
  THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS | Show review anywayHide
  
  The author's work is usually better than this, but Perfect Blue is a let-down.
  
  The plot gives us an exciting opening: Mima, former girl-band pop ... read more »
  
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- 890328
- - a customer
  - London
  - 10 May 2010 at 16:27

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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 ...