ATSUMI also performed as a guest vocal. Perfect Blue is a serial killer film, and the killer is patriarchal violence. Mima says she's learned a lot from her experience thanks to Rumi. The consensus stated, "Perfect Blue is overstylized, but its core mystery is always compelling, as are the visual theatrics. The film features the voices of Junko Iwao, Rica Matsumoto, Shiho Niiyama, Masaaki Okura, Shinpachi Tsuji, and Emiko Furukawa. Rumi finds Mima backstage and takes her back home. Murano is later attacked and murdered by a pizza delivery boy, revealed to the audience to be Mima - however, Mima wakes up in her room with no recollection of what happened, and is shocked when Tadokoro calls her to deliver the news that Murano has been murdered. Story. "[32], Madonna incorporated clips from the film into a remix of her song "What It Feels Like for a Girl" as a video interlude during her Drowned World Tour in 2001. Mima is found backstage by Rumi and taken back to Rumi's home, only to discover that Rumi was the culprit behind "Mima's Room", the serial murders, and the folie à deux that manipulated and scapegoated Me-Mania. In order to salvage her career, she is advised to drop music and pursue acting. Her friends and associates are threatened (and killed) as Mima descends into a dangerous world of paranoid delusion. Sadayuki Murai She also finds a website called "Mima's Room", which featur… A live-action film adaptation of the novel, Perfect Blue: Yume Nara Samete, was later made and released in 2002. Mima manages to finish shooting Double Bind, the final scene of which reveals that her character killed and assumed the identity of her beloved sister due to trauma-induced dissociative identity disorder. Mima was a pop idol, worshipped by the masses until fashion dictated otherwise. Chased by the police, Kevin jumps from the hospital roof, … Some of her fans are upset by her change in career, including a stalker known as "Me-Mania". Mima becomes increasingly unable to separate reality from her work as an actress. Perfect Blue (Japanese: パーフェクトブルー, Hepburn: Pāfekuto Burū) is a 1997 Japanese animated psychological thriller film directed by Satoshi Kon and written by Sadayuki Murai. "[14] Napier also sees themes related to pop idols and their performances as impacting the gaze and the issue of their roles. And right now, I want to punch my past self in the face and tell him to watch this asap. The ties to Alfred Hitchcock's work is broken with the murder of her male controllers. Avengers Confidential: Black Widow & Punisher, ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept. Aronofsky's also recently acknowledged the similarities between Perfect Blue and Black Swan, but refuses to cite PB as an influence. She is joined by her long-time manager and former pop-idol Rumi Hidaka, and her agent Tadokoro. Perfect Blue xếp hạng top #25 trong các phim hoạt hình hay nhất mọi thời đại của Total Film. When Mima quit singing and became an actress, Rumi was so distraught that she started to imagine, she herself was Mima and the real Mima was a fake. [13], Originally, the film was supposed to be a live action direct to video series, but after the Kobe earthquake of 1995 damaged the production studio, the budget for the film was reduced to an original video animation. Mima's madness results from her own subjectivity and attacks on her identity. It was written, composed and performed by the J-pop group, Jazzin' Park. Perfect Blue (Japanese: パーフェクトブルー, Hepburn: Pāfekuto Burū) is a 1997 Japanese animated psychological thriller film[4][5] directed by Satoshi Kon[6] and written by Sadayuki Murai. [38], Seven Seas Entertainment has licensed the English-language publication rights for the original Perfect Blue stories Perfect Blue: Complete Metamorphosis and Perfect Blue: Awaken from a Dream for release in 2017 and 2018, respectively. Mima confides in Rumi about the site, but is advised to ignore it. Others, however, praised Kon's direction and the film's manipulation of psychological elements to achieve a level of intensity that many likened to the films of Alfred Hitchcock. - Regards, Etrian Odyssey Untold: The Millennium Girl, Etrian Odyssey 2 Untold: The Fafnir Knight, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Perfect_Blue&oldid=1007757482, Pages with non-numeric formatnum arguments, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles containing Japanese-language text, Articles containing potentially dated statements from October 2020, All articles containing potentially dated statements, Articles with Japanese-language sources (ja), Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 19 February 2021, at 19:48. s. To reveal the actual Virtual Mima, I was really disappointed to find out that it was Rumi after all.She seems to be the last person I would suspect being the killer, although she seems to be gentle and always on Mima's side, just like the Virtual Mima persona she created inside her head, her frustrations and jealousy over Mima got the best of her, but in the end, Mima still forgave … Internet sites appear d… SHOW COMMENTS (0) Tadokoro watches the scene play out with Rumi, who storms off the set crying. Tropes used in Perfect Blue include: Acting in the Dark: What the director of Double Bind does to his actors, making the parallels between the Mima and the character she plays in the movie even creepier as both start to suspect they are the killer. Madonna incorporated clips from the film into a remix of her song "What It Feels Like for a Girl" as a video interlude during her Drowned World Tour (2001). Later that night, Mima goes onto the "Mima's Room" site, finding public diary entries written by someone pretending to be her. Mima's first job is a minor role in a television detective drama called "Double Bind". Perfect Blue is the character theme for Shiguru Oshikiri from Kiramager. A soap opera role is offered, but Mima’s character is less clean-cut than desired. Movie: Perfect Blue. Her apparition appears on the computer screen and insults her for having "tarnished" her reputation as a pure and virginal idol. Mima is scheduled with a photographer, Murano, who is known for "getting people to strip". Combining their influences as songwriters, their sound is a hybrid between the 70's psychedelic classic rock and 90's grunge eras. [27] Bob Graham of the San Francisco Chronicle noted the film's ability to "take the thriller, media fascination, psychological insight and pop culture and stand them all on their heads" via its "knowing, adult view of what seems to be a young-teenage paradise. Regardless, she agrees and events take a turn for the worse. The film had a theatrical re-release in the United States by GKIDS on September 6 and 10, 2018, with both English dubbed and subtitled screenings. subscribers Perfect Blue is a 1997 Japanese animated mystery and thriller film directed by Satoshi Kon. Perfect Blue Sky is the collaboration between Swedish black metal guitarist Pontus "PNA" Andersson (Netherbird) and Australian alternative rock vocalist Jane Kitto. Perfect Blue is the directorial debut of animator Satoshi Kon and is an adaptation of the 1991 novel Perfect Blue: Kanzen Hentai (released in English by Seven Seas Entertainment as Perfect Blue: Complete Metamorphosis) written by Yoshikazu Takeuchi.The film made its world premiere at the 1997 edition of the Fant-Asia film festival in Montreal, where it received awards for Best … Di Gi Charat Theater - Leave it to Piyoko! Her agents, Tadokoro and Rumi, help her with her first project, a direct-to-video series called Double Bind. Me-Mania / Uchida voiced by Robert Martin Klein and 3 others. It was released on November 21, 2007. Perfect Blue is the story of a retired pop singer-turned-actress, Mima, as her sense of reality starts to shake as she is stalked by an obsessed fan while being haunted from reflections of her past. On the train ride home, Mima sees an apparition of herself in her pop idol outfit, crying out that she doesn't want to go through with the part. In Australia, Perfect Blue aired on the SBS Television Network on April 12, 2008, and previously sometime in mid 2007 in a similar timeslot. PB also made Terry Gilliam's top 50 animated film list. The film was released on Blu-ray and DVD in Region B by Anime Limited in 2013. Rumi is distressed by the scene and warns Mima that it will irreversibly change her public image, but Mima accepts the role despite her own misgivings. In order to salvage her career, she is advised to drop music and pursue acting. She fears for her life and must unravel fact from illusion in order to stay alive. As she becomes a victim of stalking, gruesome murders begin to occur, and Mima starts to lose her grip on reality. Rumi is disgusted by this and insists that the producers cut the rape scene, but Mima voluntarily accepts the role, although Rumi is concerned that her reputation will be ruined if she does this. Some time later, Mima becomes a well-known actress following the critical success of her performance in Double Bind and Rumi is sent to a psychiatric hospital with her "Mima" personality dominant. That evening, Rumi finishes setting up a computer for Mima and begins to set up the internet for her. She then created an online website, pretending to be Mima and wrote about Mima's life. [27] It also made the list for Entertainment Weekly's best movies never seen from 1991–2011. Perfect Blue is the first film directed by Satoshi Kon, an animated psychological thriller often compared to the suspense-ridden works of Alfred Hitchcock. [19][20] In the U.S., Perfect Blue aired on the Encore cable television network and was featured by the Sci Fi Channel on December 10, 2007, as part of its Ani-Monday block. Mima finds evidence which makes her appear to be the prime suspect, and her mental instability makes her doubt her own memories and innocence. She talks to Rumi about a letter she received from a fan, mentioning a website called "Mima's Room", but Mima doesn't have a computer, so Rumi decides to help her set up one later. Perfect Blue is a 1997 feature-length anime film, directed by Satoshi Kon (loosely based on the novel of the same name by Yoshikazu Takeuchi). The following morning, Rumi and Tadokoro, who was released from the hospital, try to convince the producers of the show to give Mima a bigger role. where she announces her decision to leave the group, disappointing many fans. [14] Otaku described the film as "critique of the consumer society of contemporary Japan. Algo que sin duda tiene o tuvo muy confundidos a los espectadores de esta película, es la personalidad de Mima, ya que, Perfect Blue juega con los tiempos, nos hace creer que ella está "haciendo algo" cuando en realidad nuestra protagonista, sufre de un significativo trastorno de "personalidad múltiple". We're baffled as to why Perfect Blue was done as an animated film, while others associated it with common anime stereotypes of gratuitous sex and violence. Coincidentally, Kon was a fan of Gilliam. must see one of its members, Mima Kirigoe, leave the group to pursue her acting career. The film follows Mima Kirigoe, the membe… A soap opera role is offered but Mima’s character is less clean cut than desired. [21] GKIDS and Shout! She begins to feel reality slip, that her life is not her own. Perfect Blue Cast. Some of her fans are upset by her change in career and persona from a squeaky-clean and innocent teen girl, including a terrifying-looking male stalker who goes by the alias "Me-Mania". ", decides to leave the group to become an actress, believing that the idol group life is a dead end job. With Junko Iwao, Rica Matsumoto, Shinpachi Tsuji, Masaaki Ôkura. Jude is rushed into Resus and Jack realises the knife pieced her heart and caused a tamponade; she is rushed into theatre. She also decor… "[14][Note 1], Perfect Blue premiered on August 5, 1997, at the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal, Canada,[16] and had its general release in Japan on February 28, 1998.[17]. [37] In addition, Kon blogged about his meeting with Aronofsky in 2001. Nuria Trifol. Later that evening, she receives an anonymous fax, calling her a traitor. Mima, is a member of a trio called SHAM; an idol group. In this scene from the 1997 anime "Perfect Blue", the main character, Mima receives a computer. Solveig Duda. Animated Adaptation: Adapted from a novel. "[29] Writing for Anime News Network, reviewer Tim Henderson described the film as "a dark, sophisticated psychological thriller" with its effect of "over-obsession funneled through early Internet culture" and produces a "reminder of how much celebrity fandom has evolved in only a decade". The film is a psychological thriller … #conaaablogs #oldie2019. ", decides to leave the group to become a full-time actress. She discovers (imagines) her identical twin, a mirror image that hasn’t given up singing. Mima Kirigoe Mima Kirigoe is the main character from the psychological thriller movie, Perfect Blue. Though it is apparent that Mima tries her best and is treated professionally, the atmosphere and experience of filming the rape scene is traumatic. [15], Susan Napier uses her experience to analyze the film, stating that "Perfect Blue announces its preoccupation with perception, identity, voyeurism, and performance – especially in relation to the female – right from its opening sequence. Sadly, all good things must come to an end, and CHAM! Sometime in the past, Rumi developed a second personality who vicariously believed herself to be the "real Mima" (her pure-hearted and forever-young idol persona), using information from Mima's confiding in her as the basis for "Mima's Room". While touring the world it received a fair amount of acclaim, jump-starting Kon's career as a filmmaker. The film was well received critically in the festival circuit, winning awards at the 1997 Fantasia Festival in Montréal, and Fantasporto Film Festival in Portugal. Despite its unorthodox nature, the film is well known in Western anime circles. Between the ongoing stresses of filming Double Bind, her lingering regret over leaving CHAM!, her paranoia of being stalked, and her increasing obsession with "Mima's Room", Mima begins to suffer from psychosis: in particular, struggling to distinguish real life from her work in show business. You should do it too. Mima asks if they should report the letter bomb to the police, but Rumi writes it off as a prank. It was used as the ending for Episode 28: Crying Shiguru. A severely injured Rumi limps out into the street directly into the path of an oncoming truck, but doesn't move out of the way, as she is fully delusional and mistakes the truck's headlights for stage lights. It is based on the novel Perfect Blue: Complete Metamorphosis (パーフェクト・ブルー 完全変態, Pāfekuto Burū: Kanzen Hentai) by Yoshikazu Takeuchi. Rumi impales herself on a shard of broken glass while reaching for the wig. Comments Add a Comment. Marie Eugenie Marechal. Mima saves her and the truck drivers stop to call for help as both women collapse. The story for Perfect Blue is simply a masterpiece of psychological thriller and disturbing in a way, the whole anime is a trippy one it revolves around the struggles of women in the entertainment industry which when this was made the internet was just a new concept so Satoshi Kon focused it on the new technology and … perfect blue is the opening theme of the anime series, Dragonaut -The Resonance-. ", decides to quit singing to pursue a career as an actress. Perfected Super Saiyan Blue (超サイヤ人ブルーの完成, Sūpā Saiya-jin Burū no Kansei, "Super Saiyan Blue Perfected"),1 simply called SSGSS in its debut,2 is the completed Super Saiyan Blue form. While filming the rape scene, Mima begins to disconnect from reality and recalling the cheering fans from her singing performances. Mima Kirigoe VOICE. [28], Dennis Harvey of Variety wrote that while the film "ultimately disappoints with its just-middling tension and underdeveloped scenario, it still holds attention by trying something different for the genre". and written by Sadayuki Murai. The song was also the ending theme of Dragonaut -The Resonance- Episode 25. https://satoshikon.fandom.com/wiki/Perfect_Blue?oldid=6297, KON'S TONE – the Road to Millennium Actress. Several people who had been involved in the so-called "tarnishing" of Mima's reputation are murdered. Nó cũng có trong danh sách cho những phim tốt nhất không bao giờ nhìn thấy từ 1991-2011 của Entertainment Weekly. [39], For the television series and the live-action film, respectively, see, 1997 Japanese animated horror film directed by Satoshi Kon. Technically it's based off of Yoshikazu Takeuchi's novel Perfect Blue Complete Metamorphosis, but very loosely. This release also contains no special features and only the English audio track. She discovers (or imagines, really) a mirror image of herself that hasn’t given up singing. Rumi's "Mima" personality attempts to murder Mima to preserve "her" pristine image forever, and following a chase through the city, Mima incapacitates Rumi in self-defense and saves her from being killed by an oncoming truck. Mima Kirigoe voiced by Bridget Hoffman and 5 others. This state only exists in the Dragon Ball Super manga. When Mima wakes up, she discovers that she is in a room decorated to resemble her own. Internet sites appear describing every intimate detail of her life and a figure stalks her from the shadows. Mima Kirigoe is a pop idol in a group called CHAM!, but is set to change careers and become an actress. If perfect is blue this is orange. Satoshi Kon. TIME magazine included the film on its top 5 anime DVD list. "Perfect Blue" is the 200th episode of Casualty and the 24th episode of the 11th series. [4] Hoai-Tran Bui of /Film called Perfect Blue "deeply violent, both physically and emotionally", writing that "this is a film that will leave you with profound psychological scars, and the feeling that you want to take a long, long shower". Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. Mima finds bloody clothes in her closet. Much to her shock, every entry is in perfect detail, as if she herself had written them. Katsuhiro Otomo was credited as "Special Supervisor" to help the film sell abroad, and as a result, the film was screened in many film festivals around the world. Most of the media believe Mima has some connection to the recent string of murders, much to her horror. 『perfect blue』パイオニアldc 1998年12月22日 asin b00005fxe7 『perfect blue』ジェネオン エンタテインメント 2003年12月21日 asin b0000v4o38 『パーフェクトブルー』【通常版】ジェネオン エンタテインメント 2008年2月29日 asin b0011fndti Critical response in the United States upon its theatrical release was also positive. [14], Kon and Murai did not think that the original novel would make a good film and asked if they could change the contents. Directed by Satoshi Kon. [30] Reviewing the 2019 GKIDS Blu-Ray release, Neil Lumbard of Blu-Ray.com heralded Perfect Blue as "one of the greatest anime films of all time" and "a must-see masterpiece that helped to pave the way for more complex anime films to follow,"[31] while Chris Beveridge of The Fandom Post noted "this is not a film one can watch often overall, nor should you, but when you settle into it you put everything else away, turn down the lights, and savor an excellent piece of filmmaking. The next day, Mima watches her co-stars film their scenes before she is sent to the set. Elisabetta Spinelli. This version was directed by Toshiki Satō from a screenplay by Shinji Imaoka and Masahiro Kobayashi. The film features the voices of Junko Iwao, Rica Matsumoto, Shiho Niiyama, Masaaki Okura, Shinpachi Tsuji, and Emiko Furukawa. The film was also released on UMD by Anchor Bay Entertainment on December 6, 2005. Perfect Blue 1998. Tadokoro lobbies the producers of Double Bind, and succeeds in securing Mima a larger part; however, this involves her character being raped in a strip club. Satoshi Kon beside art from Perfect Blue . Mima manages to successfully film Double Bind, and is the last one in the building when she is attacked by "Me-Mania", her stalker, who disapproves of her change in career. The doctor in charge says that Rumi still believes she is a pop idol most of the time. I usually don't care regarding how faithful films are compared to a source-material I'm not familiar with, but the big problem here is an awfully tedious and ineffective storytelling mixed with bland characters. The producers agree, but cast her as a rape victim at a strip club. [18] It featured the film in widescreen, leaving the film kept within black bars on the PSP's 16:9 screen. As Mima enters her car, she smiles at herself in the rear-view mirror before declaring, "No, I'm real.". Perfect Blue is an anime movie that has been on my “want to watch” list for ages, but now I finally got around to watching it*. Bridget Hoffman. This change was approved so long as they kept a few of the original concepts from the novel. Reference to the quote is provided by Napier as: Jay, "Satoshi Kon", "Official exchange rate (LCU per US$, period average)", "Pâfekuto burû (1999) - Financial Information", "Satoshi Kon's Psychological Thriller "Perfect Blue" Heads to U.S. Yoshikazu Takeuchi Mima begins to feel reality slip around her, that her life is not her own. That night, Mima returns home and finds her tetra fish dead, sending her into a violent, crying outburst where she reveals she didn't want to do the rape scene. A while later, her apparition appears once again and taunts her, saying that Mima's life was much better when she was a pop idol. Bridget Hoffman is the English dub voice of Mima Kirigoe in Perfect Blue, and Junko Iwao is the Japanese voice. Perfect Blue Mima Kirigoe, a member of a pop-idol group called "CHAM! The police suspect Ken, and Alice is found wandering the corridors in a state of shock, with minor knife wounds. Perfect Blue Wiki Perfect Blue Wiki Wiki founding: June 14, 2020Page count: 1Last checked: June 14, 2020 Genre:Drama, Horror, PsychologicalTags:Thriller, Violence, IdolMedia:Novel, Film Perfect Blue (パーフェクトブルー, Pāfekuto Burū) is a 1997 Japanese animated psychological thriller film directed by Satoshi Kon and written by Sadayuki Murai. Factory released the film on Blu-ray Disc in North America on March 26, 2019.[22]. Following directions from a fan letter, Mima discovers a website called "Mima's Room" containing public diary entries written from her perspective, and which accurately discuss her daily life and thoughts in intimate and exacting detail. Perfect Blue is the 1997 film debut of director Satoshi Kon, who would go on to produce other work investigating the boundary between the real and the imaginary such as Paprika, Paranoia Agent and Millennium Actress. Mima receives an anonymous fax calling her a traitor, and even a letter bomb that injures Tadokoro. After Rumi is able to corner Mima in an alley, Mima throws her off by ripping her wig off. It is noted to be a higher transformation than Super Saiyan Blue. Of the 106234 characters on Anime Characters Database, 11 are from the movie Perfect Blue. The movie ends with Mima driving off and looks at herself in the rear view mirror saying “No, I’m the real thing.”, The following actors in the English adaptation are listed in the credits without specification to their respective roles: James Lyon, Frank Buck, David Lucas, Elliot Reynolds, Kermit Beachwood, Sam Strong, Carol Stanzione, Ty Webb, Billy Regan, Dari Mackenzie, George C. Cole, Syd Fontana, Sven Nosgard, Bob Marx, Devon Michaels, Robert Wicks and Mattie Rando. has spent the last two years entertaining its fans. Mima is able to escape and Rumi goes after her in a chilling chase through the city. Like much of Kon's later work, such as Paprika, the film deals with the blurring of the lines between fantasy and reality in contemporary Japan.[7]. Kon blogged about meeting him in person in 2001. Many films mine the tension between one's idealized self and the self one lives in reality to create drama and art*, few so adeptly recognize that for women, both of these sides are controlled by men. She attacks Mima with an ice pick, stabbing her in the shoulder. The film follows Mima Kirigoe, a member of a Japanese idol group, who retires from music to pursue an acting career. Regardless, she agrees and events take a turn for the worse. "[24] Time included the film on its Top 5 Anime film list,[25] Total Film ranked Perfect Blue twenty-fifth on their list of greatest animated films,[26] and /Film named it the scariest animated film ever. Perfect Blue (1997) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Darren Aronofsky paid for the rights to Perfect Blue, so he could use the live-action version of the bathtub scene for Requiem for a Dream. He takes nude photos of Mima. The Idol Life. Screenplay By: [33][34], American filmmaker Darren Aronofsky acknowledged the similarities in his 2010 film Black Swan, but denied that Black Swan was inspired by Perfect Blue; his previous film Requiem for a Dream features a remake of a scene from Perfect Blue. costume, fully believing that she is the "real" Mima and is furious with Mima for ruining "her" reputation. Rumi then emerges wearing a new CHAM! [35][36] A re-issued blog entry mentioned Aronofsky's film Requiem for a Dream as being among Kon's list of films he viewed for 2010. Mima performs one last concert with CHAM! Perfect Blue Yume Nara Samete 24.png Trivia The exact bath sequence from the anime was redone in the live-action film Requiem for a Dream with Jennifer Connelly. Perfect Blue, was originally released in 1997, being Kon’s directorial debut with a feature film. Due to her increasing mental instability, Mima begins to question her own innocence. Satoshi Kon Wiki is a FANDOM TV Community. Rumi also ordered a crazy fan of Mima to kill several creators, involved with the TV show Mima was casted in. A pop singer gives up her career to become an actress, but she slowly goes insane when she starts being stalked by an obsessed fan and what seems to … He claims that he's been exchanging emails with the "real" Mima every day, who has ordered him to eliminate the "impostor". It is based on the novel Perfect Blue: Complete Metamorphosis (パーフェクト・ブルー 完全変態, Pāfekuto Burū: Kanzen Hentai) by Yoshikazu Takeuchi.
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