Perfect Blue (1997)
The movie centers on Mima Kirigoe, the lead singer of the fictional J-pop idol group 'CHAM!', worshipped by the masses until fashion dictated otherwise. But when she decides to leave the group to become an actress, her sense of reality is shaken when she is stalked by an obsessed fan and seemingly a ghost of her past.
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Quite enthralling.November 07, 2002
Animated Japanese thriller about the price of fame is rich, deep and dark.December 15, 2010
Popular anime is mature/violent, despite sunny art style.January 01, 2000
A wildly inventive creation that is just about as adult as an animated film can get, and at times, I even started to forget that it was, in fact, animated.February 06, 2007
Kon signe d'une main de maître un thriller enlevant et chaotique dont la nature déjantée et le goût pour les effets théâtraux rappellent le Dario Argento des belles annéesApril 17, 2015
A definite example that animated films can truly stimulate the mind, Perfect Blue is not for the faint of heart.August 19, 2006
[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.July 05, 2008
The film has style and then some -- maybe too much, in fact, but the visual interest always remains high, and the storyline is intriguing.June 12, 2003
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.January 01, 2000
With the freedom of animation comes a more effective blurring of fantasy and reality.January 09, 2016
The mood is spot-on, then deliriously spottier. As Mima's sense of what's real dissolves, the film spins mirror-plates of possible realities, shattering them on the set of Mima's film before a B-movie-ish action-climax and a too-pat whodunit? reveal.January 01, 2000
A must-see for fans of Japanese animation, and might make the genre a few converts.