Perfect Blue

About Perfect Blue

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.

Perfect Blue (1998) is an animation thriller film directed by Satoshi Kon. Released in February 1998, it runs 81 minutes.

Junko Iwao takes the lead as Mima Kirigoe (voice), Rica Matsumoto as Rumi (voice), Shiho Niiyama as Rei (voice), and Masaaki Okura as Mamoru Uchida (voice). Written by Sadayuki Murai. Production companies include Asahi Broadcasting Corporation, Fangs, and Kotobuki Seihan Printing. The story is adapted from a novel.

Members will find singer, mental illness, paranoia, and psychological horror in it. In the United States it streams on HBO Max and HBO Max Amazon Channel.

Split, Black Swan, and Misery make useful companions to Perfect Blue, all filed under frightened. It scores 8.3 out of 10 from 3,426 TMDB voters and it carries a R rating.