Perfect Blue
by Satoshi Kon
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Actor: Junko Iwao, Masaaki ?kura, Michael McCarty (III), Rica Matsumoto, Shinpachi TsujiDirector: Satoshi Kon
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Japanese (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled)
Format: Animated, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Pan & Scan, 1.85:1
Running Time: 75 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-05-02
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Manga Video
Movie Reviews of Perfect Blue
Movie Review: Unexpected
Summary: 4 Stars
I watched this without knowing a thing about it. I'm relatively new to the whole anime genre so at first I was turned off by the dated look and kind of annoying music (personal tastes of course) BUT I had nothing else to do so I just kept watching it.
Turns out this movie is psycho. Before I knew it I was completely immersed in the story and captivated by the schizo explosion. The bad guy is so creepy looking I can still see his face in my head months later without having to look at a picture. I completely did not expect the twist at the end which was great - so either I wasn't paying enough attention to catch it or a movie actually surprised me. Overall, it was a pretty good movie. If it had been made as live action, I could see it being a frightening film that would do well in a mainstream thriller market.
The story isn't perfect and the beginning can move kind of slow, but once it gets rolling, it really moves.
Summary of Perfect Blue
One of the most ambitious animated films to come out of Japan (or anywhere, for that matter), Perfect Blue is an adult psycho-thriller that uses the freedom of the animated image to create the subjective reality of a young actress haunted by the ghost of her past identity. Mima is a singer who leaves her teeny-bop trio to become an actress in a violent television series, a career move that angers her fans, who prefer to see her as the pert, squeaky-clean pop idol. Plagued by self-doubt and tormented by humiliating compromises, she begins to be stalked, in her waking and sleeping moments, by an accusing alter ego who claims to be "the real Mima," until she collapses into madness as her coworkers are brutally slain around her. Director Satoshi Kon, adapting the novel by Yoshikazu Takeuchi, shows us the world from her schizophrenic perspective: days blur, dreams cross over into the waking world, the TV show blends into her real life, until her life merges with her part and she can't separate the ghosts from the real-life stalkers. Though the pat ending sweeps the psychosis and anxiety away with nary an emotional scar, it remains a smart, stylish thriller and one of the most intelligent and compelling uses of animation in recent years. Though tame by the extreme standards of "adult anime," there is nudity and a few sexually provocative scenes, and the animation is detailed and stylized (if somewhat stiff and jerky by Disney standards). --Sean AxmakerArt House & International DVD Video
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