Synopsis:

Winner - Best Animation Film at Fantasporto 1998 (Portugal) Winner - Public Prize for Best Asian Film at Fant-Asia (Canada) Pop idol singer Mima Kirigoe looks forward to a bright new career after she quits her chart-topping trio to become an actress. But when she accepts a role in a sexually charged murder mystery TV series, someone is not happy with her decision. Mima's life begins to change as she is threatened with disturbing phone calls, faxes and e-mails from a mysterious source. As she descends into a dangerous state of paranoia, reality and delusion merge into a terrifying world as Mima's innocence is lost and her dreams become nightmares. In the tradition of great suspense masters, director Satoshi Kon (Memories/Millenium Actress), special advisor Katsuhiro Otomo (Akira) and Madhouse Studios (Ninja Scroll), bring Yoshikazu Takeuchi's thrilling suspense novel to the screen, in a tour de force that brings animation to a bold new level. A brilliant psychological thriller which breaks the mold of anime films, Perfect Blue was conceived in 1993 when Yoshikazu Takeuchi (Author) and Koichi Okamoto (Original Producer) approached Rex Entertainment with a 90-minute live-action video project based on Takeuchi's novel. Perfect Blue premiered at the 'Fant-Asia Film Festival' where it proved an instant hit. The impressive imagery within the film found it's way into both Darren Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream (2000) and Madonna's 2001 Drowned World concert tour.

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•  "Breathtakingly Handsome...Haunting and Beautifully Rendered." - Film Journal International
•  "A twisted, disturbing and wholly involving thriller" - Jack Matthews, New York Daily News
•  "A Startling and Powerful Film. If Alfred Hitchcock Partnered With Walt Disney They’d Make a Picture Like This." - Roger Corman
•  "An Amazing Feat of Animation, a Stylish Psychological Thriller...Creates an Increasingly Terrifying World and Pulls You Into It With The Effectiveness of a Hitchcock Suspense Classic." - Kevin Thomas, LA Times