Perfect Blue (1998)

Perfect Blue rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb8/10· 119K votes

Rotten Tomatoes85%

Metacritic67%

TMDb8.301/10· 3K votes

With 85% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 8/10 on IMDb and 67/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.

About Perfect Blue

Rising pop star Mima 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.

Cast of Perfect Blue

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  Junko Iwao

  as Mima Kirigoe (voice)

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  Rica Matsumoto

  as Rumi (voice)

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  Shiho Niiyama

  as Rei (voice)

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  Masaaki Okura

  as Mamoru Uchida (voice)

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  Shinpachi Tsuji

  as Tadokoro (voice)

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  Emiko Furukawa

  as Yukiko (voice)

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  Yosuke Akimoto

  as Tejima (voice)

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  Yoku Shioya

  as Takao Shibuya (voice)

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  Hideyuki Hori

  as Sakuragi (voice)

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  Emi Shinohara

  as Eri Ochiai (voice)

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  Masashi Ebara

  as Murano (voice)

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  Kiyoyuki Yanada

  as Kantoku (voice)

Perfect Blue facts

Original title

PERFECT BLUE

Budget

$3M

Box office

$2.7M