Perfect Blue (Subtitled Version)
In today's social media-reliant society, 'Perfect Blue''s questions of selfhood, construct and celebrity hold more significance than ever before.
Perfect Blue (Subtitled Version)
Anime Expo Cinema Nights invites you to revisit PERFECT BLUE, the groundbreaking and rarely screened first film from the legendary director Satoshi Kon (Paprika, Paranoia Agent), as it returns to theatres for its 25th anniversary. Rising pop star Mima has quit singing to pursue a career as an actress and model, but her fans aren't ready to see her go... Harboring feelings of guilt and haunted by visions of her former self, Mima's reality and fantasy meld into a frenzied paranoia. As her stalker closes in, in person and online, the threat he poses is more real than even Mima knows, in this iconic psychological thriller that has frequently been hailed as one of the most important animated films of all time.
Genre
Animated,
Horror,
Mystery,
anime
Runtime
82
Language
Japanese
Director
Satoshi Kon
FEATURED REVIEW
Tim Brayton, Alternate Ending
In his horribly brief career that ended with his death in 2010, at the age of 46, animation director Kon Satoshi made four films and one television series, and nearly every one of those projects was a full-on masterpiece (the odd man out is 2003's 'Tokyo Godfathers,' a very lovely, comfortably above ...
Played at
Playhouse 7 9.06.18 - 9.06.18
Newhall 9.06.23 - 9.06.23
Claremont 5 9.06.23 - 9.06.23
NoHo 7 9.06.23 - 9.06.23
Monica Film Center 9.06.23 - 9.06.23
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