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Perfect Blue (1998)
Directed by Satoshi Kon
“"excuse me... who are you?"”
Animation, Thriller · 1h 21m
Rising pop star Mima Kirigoe 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.
Cast
Junko Iwao
Mima Kirigoe (voice)
Rica Matsumoto
Rumi (voice)
Shinpachi Tsuji
Tadokoro (voice)
Masaaki Okura
Uchida (voice)
Yosuke Akimoto
Tejima (voice)
Yoku Shioya
Shibuya (voice)
Hideyuki Hori
Sakuragi (voice)
Emi Shinohara
Eri Ochiai (voice)
Masashi Ebara
Murano (voice)
Kiyoyuki Yanada
Kantoku (voice)
Toru Furusawa
Yada (voice)
Shiho Niiyama
Rei (voice)
Crew
- Director
- Satoshi Kon
- Screenplay
- Sadayuki Murai
- Novel
- Yoshikazu Takeuchi
- Director of Photography
- Hisao Shirai
- Original Music Composer
- Masahiro Ikumi
- Editor
- Harutoshi Ogata
- Producer
- Hiroaki Inoue, Yoshihisa Ishihara, Masao Maruyama, Hitomi Nakagaki, Yutaka Togo
Details
- Original title
- PERFECT BLUE
- Release date
- 1998-02-28
- Runtime
- 1h 21m
- Genres
- Animation, Thriller
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- Madhouse, Rex Entertainment, Kotobuki Seihan Printing, Asahi Broadcasting Corporation, Fangs, ONIRO
- Budget
- $830,442
- Box office
- $2,743,097