Perfect Blue
"excuse me... who are you?"
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.
- Director
- Satoshi Kon
- Signature
- Craft · Tension · Wonder
- Worldwide
- $3M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
24 billed performers
The Nutevio profile
Movie DNA
How Perfect Blue actually feels to watch, measured on the twelve traits our editors track across every Nutevio title.
Perfect if you enjoyed
Story overview
What It's About
Spoiler-free. Read the analysis below for the full argument.
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.
Where to watch
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Why We Recommend It
Why It's Ranked
Perfect Blue appears in 6 Nutevio collections. Here is the argument behind each placement.
- Animation Movies Ranked #22
Placed at #22 by the Nutevio ranking model. An editor's written case is on the way.
- Best Family Movies Ranked #24
Placed at #24 by the Nutevio ranking model. An editor's written case is on the way.
- Best Psychological Thrillers Ranked #27
Placed at #27 by the Nutevio ranking model. An editor's written case is on the way.
- Thriller Movies Ranked #29
Placed at #29 by the Nutevio ranking model. An editor's written case is on the way.
- Top 100 Mind-Bending Movies Ranked #50
Placed at #50 by the Nutevio ranking model. An editor's written case is on the way.
- Top 250 Movies of All Time Ranked #117
Placed at #117 by the Nutevio ranking model. An editor's written case is on the way.
The numbers
Box Office & Release
Perfect Blue returned 3.3× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $830,442
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $3M
- Release date
- Feb 28, 1998
- Runtime
- 1h 21m
- MPAA rating
- —
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan
Figures from the verified production record. Fields we cannot source are left blank rather than estimated.
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