Story Line
Rising pop star Mima quits singing to pursue a career as an actress. After she takes up a role on a popular detective show, her handlers and collaborators begin turning up murdered. Harboring feelings of guilt and haunted by visions of her former self, Mima's reality and fantasy meld into a frenzied paranoia.
“"excuse me... who are you?"”
Top Cast
Junko Iwao
Mima Kirigoe (voice)
Rica Matsumoto
Rumi (voice)
Shiho Niiyama
Rei (voice)
Masaaki Okura
Mamoru Uchida (voice)
Shinpachi Tsuji
Tadokoro (voice)
Emiko Furukawa
Yukiko (voice)
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Rating
8.3/ 10
Release Date
1998-02-28
Runtime
1h 22m
Genres
AnimationThriller
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User Reviews (5)
Marr 🇳🇱
9/10
•11/1/2015Just seen this on All Hallows' Eve. It's a bit old, but gold! I definitely have to rewatch this, because you just got to pay attention to 'know' what is happening and follow the story. I think you'd better understand/follow the story and that it will...
The Movie Diorama
10/10
•1/16/2020Perfect Blue perfectly blends psychologically disturbed fantasy with grounded reality. Mima Kirigoe. A pop-idol. An actress. An X-rated model. Public image and its personifying echoes circulate around the world, adhering to the desires of endearing f...
GenerationofSwine
10/10
•1/12/2023I caught this in High School and it instantly took me as an eerie Alfred Hitchcock show that did an outstanding job of feeding on pure paranoia.
It was unsettling, it was scary, and at the time it seemed as realistic as it could be for an anime mo...
CinemaSerf
7/10
•2/9/2023The young "Mima" has a successful, if limited, career singing with a girl band, but she is restless. Her manager insists he can get her an acting job on a popular soap - and that's the way to fame and fortune. Like so many other impressionable young ...