Perfect blue (1997)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 1997
	Director: Satoshi Kon
	Actors: -
	Country: J
	Genre: Animation, Polar, Horror
	Conditions of visioning: 12.11.2017, Cinema am Ostertor, Weird Xperience, German version
Synopsis: Mima Kirigoe leaves the J-pop group Cham, in order to pursue her dream as an actress. Her agents Rumi, ex-singer, and Tadokoro drive her in different directions. Mima climbs up the rocky road to success by performing as rape victim and posing nude for magazines, but is haunted by something.
Review: The story is really complex involving several layers of interpretation for most the movie, so that I was always wondering what was real and whose imagination I was watching. Then the complex machniery is sorted out with many twists and turns. The dramaturgy is amazing, the different steps in the story, the way the characters are drawn fitting to what the story is supposed to tell, the different views of living and dead bodies as well as the time when these images appear. The style of the movie is maybe the most original and marking thing of this anime. It takes some features of the subgenre that we like a lot in JoRafCinema, the Giallo. A woman at the verge of a nervous breakdown, an almost invisible criminal, a few mysterious characters looking suspicious (Me-Mania), nudity and sexuality. But no killer with black-gloved hands. The psychological distortion of Mima is excellently rendered via the drawings and also via the voice, thanks to the German translation and the voice of Solveig Duda.  The blu-ray quality was quite bad, even if I don't know whether it comes from the blu-ray itself, by Rapid Eye Movies, or from the projection. It was also a good opportunity to meet the organisers of this projection Weird Xperience.
Rating: 7/10