Perfect Blue (1998)

Name: Perfect Blue
Director: Satoshi Kon
Genre: Animation, Thriller
Released: 1998
Duration: 82 min

PERFECT BLUE

""excuse me... who are you?""

ThumbScore

👍 80%audience score

Critics Score

🎬 74% (RT: 80%, MC: 67)

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Director

Satoshi Kon

Runtime

1h 22m

Rated

Country

Japan

Language

Japanese

TMDB Rating

8.0/10 (3,093 votes)

Rotten Tomatoes

80%

Metacritic

Cast

Junko Iwao as Mima Kirigoe (voice) · 85% avg

Rica Matsumoto as Rumi (voice) · 77% avg

Shiho Niiyama as Rei (voice)

Masaaki Okura as Mamoru Uchida (voice)

Shinpachi Tsuji as Tadokoro (voice)

Emiko Furukawa as Yukiko (voice)

Yosuke Akimoto as Tejima (voice)

Yoku Shioya as Takao Shibuya (voice)

Is Perfect Blue good?

Most people think so. 80% audience score, estimated from 3,093 TMDB ratings. Critics agree, scoring it 74%.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre

#286 / 661 · Animation

Rank in its year

#54 / 116 · 1998

By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

Overview

Rising pop star Mima 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. Wikipedia ↗