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Synopsis
Rising pop star Mima quits singing to pursue a career as an actress. After she takes up a role on a popular detective show, her handlers and collaborators begin turning up murdered. Harboring feelings of guilt and haunted by visions of her former self, Mima's reality and fantasy meld into a frenzied paranoia.
Cinema Atlas Connection
The first time I saw Perfect Blue, which was probably around ’97 or ’98, I was just shocked by it. It’s an incredible film and I actually bought the rights to it, and I actually tried to adapt it with a live-action version which never went anywhere. Then, when I made Requiem for a Dream, there were two small homages to it in the film. The bathtub shot with the screaming and the shot of the girl putting her head under the water and screaming. So two shots, which were basically nods to Perfect Blu
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