Perfect Blue (1997)
Average Rating: 6.4/10
Reviews Counted: 23
Fresh: 15 | Rotten: 8
Perfect Blue is overstylized, but its core mystery is always compelling, as are the visual theatrics.
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Critic Reviews: 2
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 1
Perfect Blue is overstylized, but its core mystery is always compelling, as are the visual theatrics.
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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 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
Aug 20, 1999 Limited
Jan 26, 2010
Palm Pictures
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All Critics (34) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (16) | Rotten (8) | DVD (14)
Popular anime is mature/violent, despite sunny art style.
The film has style and then some -- maybe too much, in fact, but the visual interest always remains high, and the storyline is intriguing.
Kon signe d'une main de maître un thriller enlevant et chaotique dont la nature déjantée et le goût pour les effets théâtraux rappellent le Dario Argento des belles années
[An] nime thriller [that] often plays as an examination of identity and celebrity, but ultimately gets so lost in its own complex structure that it doesn't end up saying much at all.
Quite enthralling.
Satoshi Kon has created a taut, tense thriller that's a lot more coherent than many sci-fi animes, and deftly weaves several levels of reality up until the twist ending.
Animated Japanese thriller about the price of fame is rich, deep and dark.
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