For the live-action film and television series, respectively, see Perfect Blue: Yume Nara Samete and Perfect Blue (TV series).
Perfect Blue

Japanese theatrical release poster
Directed by Satoshi Kon
Screenplay by Sadayuki Murai
Based on Perfect Blue: Complete Metamorphosis
by Yoshikazu Takeuchi
Produced by
Masao Maruyama
Hitomi Nakagaki
Yoshihisa Ishihara
Yutaka Tōgō
Hiroaki Inoue
Starring
Junko Iwao
Rica Matsumoto
Shiho Niiyama
Masaaki Okura
Shinpachi Tsuji
Emiko Furukawa
Cinematography Hisao Shirai
Edited by Harutoshi Ogata
Music by Masahiro Ikumi

Production
company
Madhouse
Distributed by Rex Entertainment

Release dates
5 August 1997 (Fantasia Festival)
28 February 1998 (Japan)

Running time 81 minutes
Country Japan
Language Japanese
Budget ¥90 million[1] (US$830,442)[2]
Box office $768,050 (US & UK only)[3] $572,669 (IT only)[4]


Perfect Blue (Japanese: パーフェクトブルー, Hepburn: Pāfekuto Burū) is a 1997 Japanese anime psychological thriller film[5][6] directed by Satoshi Kon.[7] It is loosely based on the novel Perfect Blue: Complete Metamorphosis (パーフェクトブルー：完全変態, Pāfekuto Burū: Kanzen Hentai) by Yoshikazu Takeuchi, with a screenplay by Sadayuki Murai. Featuring the voices of Junko Iwao, Rica Matsumoto, Shiho Niiyama, Masaaki Okura, Shinpachi Tsuji and Emiko Furukawa, the plot follows a member of a Japanese idol group who retires from music to pursue an acting career. As she becomes a victim of stalking by her obsessive fan, gruesome murders take place, and she begins losing her grip on reality.[8] The film deals with the blurring of the line between fantasy and reality, a commonly found theme in Kon's other works, such as Millennium Actress (2001) and Paprika (2006).[9]