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Perfect Blue (1997)

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Reviews Counted: 20 Fresh: 12  Rotten:8 Average Rating: 6.2/10
Runtime: 83 mins
Synopsis:
A surprisingly thoughtful analysis of the Japanese pop icon phenomenon. Mima is an ex-pop idol who was worshipped by the masses before fashion dictated otherwise. In order to salvage her career, she decides to drop music and pursue acting. A soap opera role is offered but Mima's character is... [More]
A surprisingly thoughtful analysis of the Japanese pop icon phenomenon. Mima is an ex-pop idol who was worshipped by the masses before fashion dictated otherwise. In order to salvage her career, she decides 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. 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. [Less]

Genre: Dramas

Director: Satoshi Kon

DVD Info

Release:

Sep 4, 2007

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Keep Case
  • Widescreen

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - English, Japanese
  • Subtitles - English, Japanese - Optional

Additional Release Material:

  • Behind The Scenes
  • Interviews
  • Trailer - Original Theatrical Trailer

Text/Photo Galleries:

  • Photo Gallery - Musical Photo Gallery

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[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.

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Quite enthralling.

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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.

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Animated Japanese thriller about the price of fame is rich, deep and dark.

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