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Perfect Blue
by Satoshi Kon
1998
"excuse me... who are you?"
6
Watched on 2 Nov 2025
8.3
Budget
$830.4K
Revenue
$2.7M
2x

Details

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.

Cast
Junko IwaoMima Kirigoe (voice)Rica MatsumotoRumi (voice)Shiho NiiyamaRei (voice)Masaaki OkuraMamoru Uchida (voice)Shinpachi TsujiTadokoro (voice)Emiko FurukawaYukiko (voice)Yosuke AkimotoTejima (voice)Yoku ShioyaTakao Shibuya (voice)Hideyuki HoriSakuragi (voice)Emi ShinoharaEri Ochiai (voice)
Studio
Madhouse, Rex Entertainment, Kotobuki Seihan Printing, Asahi Broadcasting Corporation, Fangs, ONIRO
Credits19
ScreenplaySadayuki Murai
Executive ProducerYuichi Tsurumi, Koshiro Kanda, Ken Washiya
ProducerHiroaki Inoue, Hitomi Nakagaki, Masao Maruyama, Yoshihisa Ishihara, Yutaka Togo
Animation DirectorHideki Hamasu
Art DirectionNobutaka Ike
Background DesignerSachiko Kato, Nizou Yamamoto, Shinichi Uehara, Kaoru Inoda, Hisashi Ikeda, Ryo Kono, Masayoshi Banno, Masaru Oota, Kim Chul-kyu, Hiroshi Washizaki, Junichi Taniguchi, Kazusuke Yoshihara, Yuji Ikeda, Park Yong-il
Character DesignerHisashi Eguchi, Satoshi Kon, Hideki Hamasu
Color DesignerSatoshi Hashimoto
Compositing ArtistTetsuo Ofuji, Motoaki Ikegami, Katsunori Maebara, Yoichi Kuroda, Hiroshi Noguchi, Shinji Ikegami, Naohisa Haishima, Takashi Shimada, Toshikazu Hisano, Koichi Furusawa, Shoji Yazawa, Kanae Hirano, Kazumi Miyata, Masafumi Awakura, Tomohiro Nishiyama, Norikazu Yamaguchi, Yuki Katsuta, Kumiko Idei
Director of PhotographyHisao Shirai
EditorHarutoshi Ogata
Key AnimationHideki Futamura, Mamoru Kurosawa, Hidenori Matsubara, Hiroshi Hamasaki, Kouichi Arai, Makoto Koga, Masaharu Tada, Morifumi Naka, Kumiko Kawana, Yoshihiro Kitano, Hiroyuki Morita, Katsuichi Nakayama, Michiyo Suzuki, Mitsuo Iso, Nobumasa Shinkawa, Hikaru Takanashi, Makoto Yamada, Shinji Hashimoto, Kunio Takahide, Masahiro Kurio, Shinya Takahashi, Takaaki Yamashita, Takeshi Honda, Shigeru Fujita, Takuo Noda, Toshiya Niidome, Hitoshi Haga
Music ProducerMasaaki Hori, Kei Wakakusa
NovelYoshikazu Takeuchi
Original Music ComposerMasahiro Ikumi
Sound DirectorMasafumi Mima
Sound EffectsShizuo Kurahashi
Sound RecordistFujio Yamada
Special EffectsSachiko Sanada

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  • Watched on2 Nov 2025, 07:27