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Perfect Blue
1997
· Movie
· 82 min
A
MEANRANK
82/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #75
- IMDb #48
- Google retired #60
- Rotten Tomatoes #136
- Metacritic #125
- Letterboxd #9
+8 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #207
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #96
- Metacritic Critics #182
- Metacritic Audience #46
- Criticker #8
- Douban #13
- Kinopoisk #130
- AlloCiné #172
Every rating
67–96
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 67, highest is Google on 96.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A pop singer decides to leave her chart-topping group to pursue an acting career. Her transition is rocky, and she takes on a disturbing role in a crime drama. As the lines between her reality and the fiction of her role begin to blur, she is stalked by an obsessed fan and haunted by a ghostly version of her former pop idol self, descending into a terrifying paranoia.
Details
- Director
- Satoshi Kon
- Writer
- Sadayuki Murai
- Released
- 28 February 1998
- Country
- Japan
- Language
- Japanese, English
- Runtime
- 82 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $830.4K
- Box office
- $2.7M
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Awards
3 wins & 3 nominations total
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