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 be a ghost of her past.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 be a ghost of her past.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 be a ghost of her past.
- Awards
- 3 wins & 3 nominations
Junko Iwao
- Mima Kirigoe
- (voice)
Rica Matsumoto
- Rumi
- (voice)
- (as Rika Matsumoto)
Shinpachi Tsuji
- Tadokoro
- (voice)
Masaaki Ôkura
- Uchida
- (voice)
Yôsuke Akimoto
- Tejima
- (voice)
Yoku Shioya
- Shibuya
- (voice)
Hideyuki Hori
- Sakuragi
- (voice)
Emi Shinohara
- Eri Ochiai
- (voice)
Masashi Ebara
- Murano
- (voice)
Kiyoyuki Yanada
- Kantoku
- (voice)
Tôru Furusawa
- Yada
- (voice)
Shiho Niiyama
- Rei
- (voice)
Emiko Furukawa
- Yukiko
- (voice)
Aya Hara
- Mima's Mother
- (voice)
Shin'ichirô Miki
- Taku
- (voice)
Jin Yamanoi
- Additional Voices
- (voice)
Megumi Tano
- Child
- (voice)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe film was originally conceived as a live-action feature, but became an anime when several backers abruptly pulled out in pre-production.
- Goofs(at around 3 mins) In the English dub version, Cham sings their song at the beginning in English. Later on, when the writer is waiting for the elevator (at around 42 mins), the radio is playing the song in Japanese.
- Alternate versionsAvailable in both R and unrated versions. The unrated cut adds about 3 minutes, extended scenes involving sexuality and violence.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Manga Erotica (2000)
Featured review
Dreaming of real fame comes at a cost.
Mima Kirigoes is part of a young idol group Cham, but she decides to move on and kick-start a career as an actress with some help by her pressuring agent. To change her image, she accepts some confronting roles, which eventuates into her downward spiral between realities and virtual. She discovers an Internet site that knows her every move and those responsible for growing success in the acting industry end up brutally killed.
Well, what can I say? Simply, I forgot that I originally saw this wonderfully, stunning anime picture before. I don't know how it left my mind, because it's very chilling and effective across the board. Based on Yoshikazu Takeuchi's novel, "Perfect Blue" is an intoxicatedly, shocking psychological thriller that does resemble some works of Lynch, Polanski, De Palma and rightly so, Hitchcock. Even a giallo imprint shines heavily within the mixture.
The mature plot boldly plays it cards at a mild pace and eventually forms a structure like a rubrics cube. I wouldn't go out of my way to call it complicated, but there's stylish imagination and cerebral details that gladly doesn't fall into a convoluted mess. The characters' persona's are well defined and emotionally attachable. It can turn into an uncomfortable ride, where dazzling images of fact and fiction skews into one. You can't help but get those disorientating spells that the distraught Mima succumbs to on her journey to find her feet as an mature entertainer. Where her dreams become her anxiety, as she's too sensitive to how she's being perceived then being her true self. Her clean-cut image becomes tainted and a growing obsession towards her takes its tole on her fractured and vulnerable mind.
Paranoia, delusions and a dreamlike air are cooked up with an array of tension and creepy visuals. The animation isn't a visual goldmine, but its showered with powerfully focused and flashed up images that manage to keep the viewer at bay. The pressure building dialogues are quite biting, and the revealing twist catches you off guard because of the superb use of artificial dreams with its fast editing and exhilaratingly moody soundtrack.
You don't have to be a fan of animation to enjoy this piece. So, if you come across it, give it a chance.
Well, what can I say? Simply, I forgot that I originally saw this wonderfully, stunning anime picture before. I don't know how it left my mind, because it's very chilling and effective across the board. Based on Yoshikazu Takeuchi's novel, "Perfect Blue" is an intoxicatedly, shocking psychological thriller that does resemble some works of Lynch, Polanski, De Palma and rightly so, Hitchcock. Even a giallo imprint shines heavily within the mixture.
The mature plot boldly plays it cards at a mild pace and eventually forms a structure like a rubrics cube. I wouldn't go out of my way to call it complicated, but there's stylish imagination and cerebral details that gladly doesn't fall into a convoluted mess. The characters' persona's are well defined and emotionally attachable. It can turn into an uncomfortable ride, where dazzling images of fact and fiction skews into one. You can't help but get those disorientating spells that the distraught Mima succumbs to on her journey to find her feet as an mature entertainer. Where her dreams become her anxiety, as she's too sensitive to how she's being perceived then being her true self. Her clean-cut image becomes tainted and a growing obsession towards her takes its tole on her fractured and vulnerable mind.
Paranoia, delusions and a dreamlike air are cooked up with an array of tension and creepy visuals. The animation isn't a visual goldmine, but its showered with powerfully focused and flashed up images that manage to keep the viewer at bay. The pressure building dialogues are quite biting, and the revealing twist catches you off guard because of the superb use of artificial dreams with its fast editing and exhilaratingly moody soundtrack.
You don't have to be a fan of animation to enjoy this piece. So, if you come across it, give it a chance.
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- lost-in-limbo
- Sep 12, 2006
Details
- Release date
- Country of origin
- Official sites
- Languages
- Also known as
- Màu Của Ảo Giác
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Budget
- ¥3,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $558,598
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $9,600
- Aug 22, 1999
- Gross worldwide
- $563,130
- Runtime1 hour 21 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
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