1998 · animation · thriller · supernatural
Perfect Blue
Directed by Satoshi Kon1h 21m1998
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.
Our read: Perfect Blue (1998) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive animation · thriller · supernatural entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, extreme animation / thriller, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- kinetic
- extreme
- inventive
- twisty
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