#Perfectblue

PERFECT BLUE (Satoshi Kon, 1997) plats at Metrograph starting October 20th as part of our series, “Close-Up: Films on Film.” #perfectblue

¿Quién eres realmente? 👤✨ Perfect Blue nos enseñó los peligros de la fama mucho antes de las redes sociales. Mima Kirigoe pasó de Idol a una pesadilla que no termina. ¿Realidad o alucinación? 🍒💊 #anime #perfectblue #parati #movie

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Satoshi Kon‘s (1997) psychological thriller follows Mima Kirigoe; a former pop idol stepping into the world of acting, only to find the line between performance and the tangible world dissolving. The film is renowned for its seamless blurring of reality and illusion; Kon’s precise editing, mirrored imagery, and narrative disorientation pull the viewer into Mima’s psyche, where memory, performance, and truth become indistinguishable. Each transition feels deliberate, yet destabilizing; reflecting the quiet erosion of control. Its tension is not built on spectacle, but on intrusion: the pressure to be seen, to be perfect. What surrounds Mima becomes a maze of coincidence and control; where every moment feels orchestrated, yet nothing can be proven. Masahiro Ikumi’s sound design and the film’s minimal score amplify its unease, allowing silence and repetition to speak louder than words; creating an atmosphere that lingers long after each scene fades. Perfect Blue unfolds as a meditation on media and illusion; where fiction and reality coexist without boundary, each reinforcing the other. A haunting vision of storytelling that refuses to stay contained. A defining psychological anime: intimate, unsettling, and eerily timeless. Source: Perfect Blue Director: Satoshi Kon Studio: Madhouse #cinephile #perfectblue #slowcinema #visualpoetry #psychologicalhorror

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🎤😰 De ídolo pop a actriz… y de ahí a una espiral de paranoia que no te deja respirar. #PerfectBlue juega con tu mente y te hace dudar de TODO. 👀 No te pierdas este imperdible clásico.⁣ @masquecinelatam

"𝙊𝙢𝙤𝙞𝙙𝙚 𝙣𝙞 𝘿𝙖𝙠𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙩𝙚 𝙄𝙢𝙖 𝙬𝙖 " 𝙗𝙮 CHAM! ( 𝙈𝙄𝙎𝘼 ) 𝙋𝙚𝙧𝙛𝙚𝙘𝙩 𝘽𝙡𝙪𝙚 *🅘🅝🅢🅔🅡🅣 🅢🅞🅝🅖* (𝙁𝙚𝙗 28, 1998) パーフェクトブルー 想い出に抱かれて今は / CHAM! (𝙈𝙄𝙎𝘼) "𝙊𝙢𝙤𝙞𝙙𝙚 𝙣𝙞 𝘿𝙖𝙠𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙩𝙚 𝙄𝙢𝙖 𝙬𝙖 (𝘼𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙞𝙖 𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙨 𝙢𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙤𝙨) 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙩𝙖𝙙𝙖 𝙥𝙤𝙧 𝙈𝙄𝙎𝘼, 𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙖 𝙘𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙞𝙤́𝙣 𝙖𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙚 𝙙𝙪𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙚 𝙡𝙤𝙨 𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙤𝙨 𝙢𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙤𝙨 𝙙𝙚 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙨𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙤́𝙣 𝙙𝙚𝙡 𝙘𝙖𝙢𝙗𝙞𝙤 𝙙𝙚 𝙘𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙚𝙧𝙖 𝙙𝙚 𝙈𝙞𝙢𝙖. 𝙇𝙖 𝙡𝙚𝙩𝙧𝙖 𝙧𝙚𝙛𝙡𝙚𝙟𝙖 𝙩𝙚𝙢𝙖𝙨 𝙙𝙚 𝙢𝙚𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙤𝙡𝙞́𝙖, 𝙣𝙤𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙡𝙜𝙞𝙖 𝙮 𝙡𝙖 𝙙𝙞𝙛𝙞𝙘𝙪𝙡𝙩𝙖𝙙 𝙙𝙚 𝙖𝙫𝙖𝙣𝙯𝙖𝙧 𝙘𝙪𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙤 𝙪𝙣𝙤 𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙖́ 𝙖𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙖𝙙𝙤 𝙥𝙤𝙧 𝙨𝙪𝙨 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙥𝙞𝙤𝙨 𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙪𝙚𝙧𝙙𝙤𝙨. 𝙀𝙣 𝙡𝙖 𝙥𝙚𝙡𝙞́𝙘𝙪𝙡𝙖, 𝙡𝙖 𝙢𝙪́𝙨𝙞𝙘𝙖 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙗𝙪𝙮𝙚 𝙖 𝙡𝙖 𝙖𝙩𝙢𝙤́𝙨𝙛𝙚𝙧𝙖 𝙙𝙚 𝙙𝙚𝙨𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙘𝙞𝙤́𝙣 𝙮 𝙡𝙖 𝙡𝙪𝙘𝙝𝙖 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙖 𝙙𝙚 𝙡𝙖 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙩𝙖𝙜𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙖, 𝙈𝙞𝙢𝙖 𝙆𝙞𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙤𝙚, 𝙢𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙨 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙖 𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙘𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙖𝙧 𝙨𝙪 𝙥𝙖𝙨𝙖𝙙𝙤 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙤 𝙞𝙙𝙤𝙡 𝙘𝙤𝙣 𝙨𝙪 𝙣𝙪𝙚𝙫𝙖 𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙙𝙖𝙙. #animevhsvideo #animevhsmusic #perfectblue #パーフェクトブルー

Perfect Blue (1998) anime soundtrack 💃🏻 high-quality Japan import vinyl w/ obi! now available ⇢at the lab⁠

Millennium Actress (2001) Directed by: Satoshi Kon Studio: Madhouse The anime is loosely based on the lives of actresses Setsuko Hara and Hideko Takamine and it tells the story of two documentary filmmakers investigating the life of a retired acting legend. Filmmaker Genya Tachibana begins work on a documentary about famed Japanese actress Chiyoko Fujiwara. Now well into old age, Chiyoko has become reclusive and shy about any publicity, but she eventually warms up to Tachibana and starts to relate her life story. Kon's previous project, Perfect Blue was about the dark side of the Cinema Industry & Psychological problems an Actress has to go through for survival. But, this movie is very different from Perfect Blue, showing us emotion of love and the pursuit of a long-lost passion. The most important message I understood from this movie is how art reflects personal experience and how personal life is structured by the narratives we create for ourselves. I'll do a separate post on that. Anyways, this movie is very close to me as Chiyoko's story is very similar to my Grandmother, not by professions, but by memories. Being a 75 y/o lady, she also recalls a lot of her memories whenever her favorite songs, movies appear on the screen of her tv. She loves to talk about her childhood, she talks about her college days, her early days of marriage. And being her only Grandson, I was the only one who listened to all of her fragments of memories since my childhood. Thus I could connect to the memories which were being structured one by one in this movie, pretty well.

This recording session for "Ai no Tenshi" (Angel of Love) from the 1997 film Perfect Blue is a rare piece of anime history with several fascinating details - The three women in the image are the original performers for the fictional idol group CHAM!. From left to right, they are MISA (voice of Rei), Emiko Furukawa (voice of Yukiko), and Mie Shimizu (voice of Mima) In the film, the choreography and singing for CHAM! were intentionally designed not to be perfectly in unison. Director Satoshi Kon wanted to maintain a sense of realism, reflecting the sometimes unpolished nature of real-life underground idol groups. This rare clip is sourced from a rare promotional CD-ROM released alongside the movie in the late 90s. It is one of the few pieces of behind-the-scenes footage that shows the original cast recording their lines and music together in the studio. Fun fact: Perfect Blue and its music had a profound impact on Western filmmakers. Director Darren Aronofsky famously used scenes from this movie as direct inspiration for his films Requiem for a Dream (2000) and Black Swan (2010). #perfectblue #blackswan #requiem

《I AM MIMA》 — CGI // 3D by @izanami.photo #cosplay #cosplayworld #perfectblue #perfectbluecosplay #mimakirigoe

Halloween is the perfect time to add #SatoshiKon’s masterful #PerfectBlue to your collection! 😈🩸 #animerecommendation #horrortok #horroranime