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Perfect Blue

starring: Junko Iwao, Rica Matsumoto, Shinpachi Tsuji, Masaaki Ôkura, Michael McCarty (III)
directed by: Satoshi Kon

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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0660200404925
Format: Animated, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Manga Video
Manufacturer: Manga Video
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Pan & Scan
Publisher: Manga Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 02, 2000
Running Time: 75 minutes
Sales Rank: 8056
Studio: Manga Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1997



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Editorial Review:

Amazon.com:
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 Axmaker



Customer Reviews
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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - One of my favorites
...but for you, perhaps not. If you are sensitive about rape, violent murders and/or are prone to ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - A little uncertain at the start, but the director soon finds his feet
A great movie by any classification, as others have said, this film is very like a Hitchcock film. ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Unexpected
I watched this without knowing a thing about it. I'm relatively new to the whole anime genre so at ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - As described, very fast shipping. A+++
I absolutely love this movie. At moments it can be confusing due to switches between the past and present. ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - One of the most suspenseful animes you'll ever see
Perfect Blue revolves around Mimi: a pretty and talented former pop idol who leaves her former trio behind ... Read More

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