| Year | 1998 |
|---|---|
| Status | released |
| Duration | 81 mins |
| Studio | MADHOUSE |
| Theatrical Release | February 28, 1998 |
| Streaming Release | March 26, 2019 |
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Synopsis
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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Rating Entries
Thoughtfull psychological thriller that leaves you disoriented and maybe even disturbed
Perfect Blue is a psychological thriller about a singer in a pop trio, Mima, who turns to acting because of the lack of successes that she feels she is achieving in music. Ironically, after she leaves her former singing partners become far more successful as a duo than they have ever been working with her. As Mima turns towards acting, she discovers that a stalker has been making posts about her on his fan-page detailing Mima’s day-to day experience as she transitions to acting. These things began to manifest themselves in Mima’s mind and embody a separate personality that haunts her throughout this film. I am not usually drawn to anime but this film really poked at my curiosity. Mostly because of the stories I have heard about the esteemed director, Darren Aronofsky, buying the rights to this film for $60k in order to, not only replicate a seen from this film in his critically-acclaimed masterpiece, Requiem for a Dream, but also to allegedly replicate aspects of Perfect Blue in his Oscar-winning movie, Black Swan.
