Perfect blue

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Movie
German title Perfect blue
Original title Perfect blue
Country of production Japan
original language Japanese
Publishing year 1997
length 81 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Satoshi Kon
script Sadayuki Murai
production Hiroaki Inoue ,
Haruyo Kanesaku ,
Masao Maruyama ,
Yutaka Maseba
music Masahiro Ikumi
camera Hisao Shirai
cut Harutoshi Ogata
synchronization

Perfect Blue is an anime film that was made in the animation studio Madhouse under the direction of Satoshi Kon , who first took on the role of director. It was published in 1997 and is loosely based on the novel of the same name by Yoshikazu Takeuchi . The German premiere took place on February 16, 1998 at the Berlin International Film Festival .

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The young pop singer Mima Kirigoe is a member of the girl group CHAM , which is very popular with the audience. Yet they fail to make the big breakthrough. Because of this, Mima leaves the band and instead tries to start a solo career in the film business. Your agent Tadokoro gives you a first small supporting role in the crime series Double Bind (see. Double bind ) and convinced the producers of it to expand the role. Apparently, her new career is taking on more and more shape, on the other hand, her exit from the music business has apparently annoyed some of her fans so much that, in addition to fan mail, she now also receives threatening letters, one of which even turns out to be a letter bomb .

Suddenly her life is out of joint: The expansion of the role leads to a rape scene , her former band CHAM makes the long-awaited breakthrough without her and Mima discovers a page on the Internet on which all her most intimate thoughts are described in detail by a stranger in the form of a diary become. She is horrified to discover that the film business works very differently from the music business. After all, she has to be photographed by a nude photographer for her career .

The rape scenes , the nudes, the upswing of CHAM , the threatening letters and the stranger who obviously observes her every step wear her nerves and drive her insane. More and more she withdraws from reality and the line between reality and fiction blurs before her eyes.

Eventually, Double Bind's screenwriter , Takao Shibuya, is murdered. More murders related to Mima follow. In her growing paranoia and under the manipulative effect of the false diary, she finally considers herself the murderer.

She turns out to be a victim. The threatening letter writer, a fanatic named Me-Maniac, lies in wait for her and tries to rape her. Mima manages to strike him down and turns to her agent Rumi for help, only to find out that Rumi, formerly an idol herself, is the mysterious diary writer and considers herself an eternally young Mima. She explains to Mima that she instigated Me-Maniac to kill her and now tries to kill Mima with her own hands, but Mima manages to escape. During the subsequent hunt through the city, Mima was able to immobilize Rumi despite her injuries.

In the end, Rumi is finally admitted to a psychiatric clinic .

Background information

The anime Perfect Blue involved around 15 main cartoonists and 100 other cartoonists for simple pictures. The budget was about $ 3 million. It took two years from the first idea to the first sketches to implementation.

Katsuhiro Otomo , director of Akira , acted as special adviser .

There is a real- life film about the successful anime called Perfect Blue - Yume nara Samete ( Eng . "If it's a dream, wake up"), which was published in 2002 and adheres more closely to the novel. The film is a remake directed by Toshiki Sato but failed to replicate the anime's success. In Europe he was rather unknown.

Black Swan's director Darren Aronofsky bought the rights to this film on October 21, 2011. There are many parallels between “Black Swan” and “Perfect Blue”.

Reviews

  • “ ... another example of the Japanese mastery of fictionalising 'real life' themes for a two-dimensional, drawn format. "( Film service )
  • " " Perfect Blue "... is such a piece of considerable depth. "( FAZ )
  • " Impressively drawn, but the confused plot has 20 surprising twists too many " ( TV Today )

synchronization

role Japanese speaker ( seiyū ) German speaker
Mima Kirigoe Junko Iwao Solveig Duda
Rumi Rika Matsumoto Carin C. Tietze
Tadokoro Shimpachi Tsuji Claus Brockmeyer
Me-Maniac / Uchida Masaaki Ōkura Philipp Brammer

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