Let's Talk About Perfect Blue.

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There's something very charming about Perfect Blue. Maybe it's the allure of early internet stalking. Maybe it's the fantastic dub or quirky murder-mystery. I don't know.

I don't like a lot of anime, some but not a lot. Perfect Blue (imo) is a film Hitchcock would make if he was alive and living in Japan in the early 2000s. There's great tension and surprises and a very unexpected ending. It's also probably (with the exception of some hallucination sequences) the most reality-based anime I've ever seen.

It's a very vouyeristic film. Everyone is online. Everyone is stalking everyone. A film way ahead of it's time. I'm amazed that this was made before the advent of social networking. Was Japan really that ahead of the curve with blogs and fan pages?

Anyway, I would recommend this film even if you're not into anime...if you like tight thrillers.

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0Rj7nn0ZVs
 
Favorite murder mystery type of cartoon/anime (didn't watch that much besides whatever happened to be on Adult Swim) was and still is Case Closed.

Haven't watched in in forever though. I wonder if it still holds up at all>
 
Satoshi Kon, the director of Millennium Actress, made this, right??? I will give this movie a try simply because Millennium Actress is a masterpiece.
 
I suggested Perfect Blue back when my friends and I went to Blockbuster to rent some films. Grabbed it on VHS... God so much has changed since then. Anime was on the cusp of a boom here in the US, and of course my friends were like LOLanime. I loved it of course, it's such a creepy and surreal experience. I went on to become a fan of Satoshi Kon's work. A shame that we lost such a visionary so soon
 
One of my favorite anime films of all time. Although I'm not as big of a Kon fan as most people, Perfect Blue was nothing less than a masterpiece.
 
I never finished this movie, honestly I remember getting a little bored. Maybe I'll give it another try. As far as my taste go, Paranoia Agent starts ok, but is ultimately ass. Millenium Actress is good, paprika is trash, I remember liking Tokyo Godfathers.
 
I was too young & naive to have fully appreciated it then.
Wouldn't mind giving it another watch if it were on Netflix this summer.
 
Any word on Blu-ray releases? I would love to get Millenium Actress and Perfect Blue, or even Tokyo Godfathers on Blu-ray. I would love a boxset of all of Satoshi Kon's work in film.
It is too bad he passed away so young as I really like his work (him and Miyazaki are the two animation directors I most admire).
 
Leshita said:
Any word on Blu-ray releases? I would love to get Millenium Actress and Perfect Blue, or even Tokyo Godfathers on Blu-ray. I would love a boxset of all of Satoshi Kon's work in film.
It is too bad he passed away so young as I really like his work (him and Miyazaki are the two animation directors I most admire).
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Perfect Blue is out on BD in Japan.
 
No subtitles though. :/

I love the Studio Ghibli Japanese BD releases because they are so full of subs and dubs from all countries, love me some Cantonese dubs sometimes because I grew up watching Laputa and Totoro in Cantonese (though I prefer the old Cantonese Laputa dub over the new version they did).
 
My favorite Kon's film after Tokyo Godfather. Perfect Blue was my introduction feature-length anime. God damn, I love this film. I wish a blu-ray would come out in the States.
 
Yeah, I've seen this a couple times. Definitely worth checking out if you're interested in dark surrealism.
 
I just coincidentally watched this movie a week after seeing Black Swan and was completely blown away by the similarities.

But yeah I thought it was crazy that Aronofsky purchased rights (or something like that) to it to use a scene in Requiem for a Dream and then proceeded to deny any influence from it when he releases a movie that pretty much shares some exact scenes from it a few years later.

But anyways about Perfect Blue; I loved it.
 
Absolutely brilliant film.

I'm still so damn sad that Satoshi Kon is no longer with us.
 
Croc said:
I just coincidentally watched this movie a week after seeing Black Swan and was completely blown away by the similarities.

But yeah I thought it was crazy that Aronofsky purchased rights (or something like that) to it to use a scene in Requiem for a Dream and then proceeded to deny any influence from it when he releases a movie that pretty much shares some exact scenes from it a few years later.

But anyways about Perfect Blue; I loved it.
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Really reminds me of the author of the Hunger Games denying that she's never heard of Battle Royale. I mean you spend years writing about a televised series of games where children kill one another and never once come across Battle Royale? It's like you expect me to believe writers exist in a bubble.
 
Easily in my top 5 feature length animated movies. I really have to watch the rest of Satoshi Kon's work going by how much I enjoyed Perfect Blue. The animation was just gorgeous, and love the cold eerie vibe.
 
Perfect Blue is a near-perfect film. I endorse it whole-heartedly.

icarus-daedelus said:
As are we all.

And now The Dreaming Machine will never be finished.
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Frankly, given the direction Kon was going in Paranoia Agent and especially Paprika, I can't picture The Dreaming Machine as ending up anything but a big mess, even had he lived to complete it.

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Yeah, but considering the reality of the situation at Madhouse right now, I'm not so sure.
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Maruyama wants to finish the film at his new studio Mappa, but who knows if that will ever come to fruition.
 
One of my all time favourite animes. Every time I watch it, I feel like I get a different interpretation. From what I remember (at least in the Japanese version), the last scene
has characters voices changed / matched with other people, which makes you rethink the whole movie as you try to piece together what actually happened.
I haven't watched it for a long time though, so I may not remember things right.
 
Perfect Blue was my first Kon film back in college, and I fell in love with it. I still think it's one of his best (though I'll always adore Millennium Actress).

The movie is a real trip, and I definitely needed to watch it a couple times, but I loved it.

CepPyBoy said:
Easily in my top 5 feature length animated movies. I really have to watch the rest of Satoshi Kon's work going by how much I enjoyed Perfect Blue. The animation was just gorgeous, and love the cold eerie vibe.
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PLEASE see Millennium Actress. It's not the same genre, but it's an amazing film.
 
It was rather awesome. I really need to watch it again since IIRC some of the stuff didn't really make sense to me.
 
I love this film. Watched it a few years ago and was gripped. I remember being confused at one part thought.

Who killed MeMania? He killed her male agent but i can't remember what happened next.
 
Dan said:
Absolutely brilliant film.

I'm still so damn sad that Satoshi Kon is no longer with us.
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reading his 'goodbye' letter when he knew his days were coming to an end was so damn difficult. Obviously I didn't even know the guy, but reading that really choked me up.
Really going to miss his work, but I'm sure those who knew him personally will greatly miss his fantastic spirit and outlook on things. Fuck.
 
Just a heads up if anyone is interested.

The company that recently released the exceptional Cowboy Bebop Blu-rays are going to be putting out a Collector's Edition Blu-Ray combi pack of Perfect Blue at the end of the month. Once they run out they'll start releasing the standard version according to this website.


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Amazon UK link: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Perfect-Blue-Collectors-Edition-Blu-ray/dp/B00CDKFQO0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1381828111&sr=8-1&keywords=perfect+blue
 
^ Thanks for the heads up! I think I'll get one. I Love this film. One of my favourite anime films. I just read that Millennium Actress is getting a Blu-Ray release in February next year, awesome.
 
This.
Millenium Actress
Tokyo Godfather
Paprika

Are must see if you are Satoshi Kon's fan. I also want to check out "Paranoia Agent" but haven't got the money to do so lately.
 
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