Perfect Blue (Unrated) (Dub)
by Satoshi Kon
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Actor: Junko Iwao, Masaaki ?kura, Michael McCarty (III), Rica Matsumoto, Shinpachi TsujiDirector: Satoshi Kon
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language); French (Original Language); Italian (Original Language); Japanese (Original Language), Analog
Format: Animated, Color, Dubbed, NTSC, Special Edition
Release Date: 1999-11-23
Audience Rating: Unrated
Publisher: Manga Video
Studio: Manga Video
VHS Movie Reviews of Perfect Blue (Unrated) (Dub)
Movie Review: A little uncertain at the start, but the director soon finds his feet
Summary: 4 Stars
A great movie by any classification, as others have said, this film is very like a Hitchcock film. It takes the director a few minutes to get into the swing of things (it was his first feature after all) and the animation at first looks a bit amateurish, but once he finds his feet he sweeps the viewer off his feet and after that happens it takes some effort to keep up with the plot. The film is not as disorienting as his later film, Millennium Actress, and nowhere near as complex as Paprika, but even so, it's a difficult task to sort out the story and I was quite proud of myself that I had pretty much figured out the real story before the director laid it out for me.
I give the film only four stars because I felt the ending was not fleshed out. As Amazon's write-up mentions, and without giving anything away, it leaves the viewer wanting the story to have at least some after-effects. However, the story as a whole is incredibly entertaining, so the director can be forgiven for this minor gaffe.
In my opinion, Satoshi Kon is one of the three best anime movie directors working today (alongside Makoto Shinkai and the legendary Hayao Miyazaki. His style is reminiscent of Hitchcock or perhaps the Coen Brothers. Perfect Blue shows his nascent talent very well, and viewers who like this film will do well to check out his later work.
This DVD release is transferred in 16:9 anamorphic, the image and sound are good.
By the way, does anyone else notice an odd similarity between the names of the fictitious Mima Kirigoe and the real-life pop idol turned actress Kylie Minogue - or is that just me?
Summary of Perfect Blue (Unrated) (Dub)
One of the most ambitious animated films to come out of Japan (or anywhere, for that matter), Perfect Blue is an adult psycho-thriller that uses the freedom of the animated image to create the subjective reality of a young actress haunted by the ghost of her past identity. Mima is a singer who leaves her teeny-bop trio to become an actress in a violent television series, a career move that angers her fans, who prefer to see her as the pert, squeaky-clean pop idol. Plagued by self-doubt and tormented by humiliating compromises, she begins to be stalked, in her waking and sleeping moments, by an accusing alter ego who claims to be "the real Mima," until she collapses into madness as her coworkers are brutally slain around her. Director Satoshi Kon, adapting the novel by Yoshikazu Takeuchi, shows us the world from her schizophrenic perspective: days blur, dreams cross over into the waking world, the TV show blends into her real life, until her life merges with her part and she can't separate the ghosts from the real-life stalkers. Though the pat ending sweeps the psychosis and anxiety away with nary an emotional scar, it remains a smart, stylish thriller and one of the most intelligent and compelling uses of animation in recent years. Though tame by the extreme standards of "adult anime," there is nudity and a few sexually provocative scenes, and the animation is detailed and stylized (if somewhat stiff and jerky by Disney standards). --Sean AxmakerAnimation VHS Video
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