Perfect Blue
“"excuse me... who are you?"”
Rising pop star Mima Kirigoe 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.
Genres
Animation, Thriller
Studio
Madhouse
Language
ja
Status
Released
How Perfect Blue performed
Budget
$830,442
Worldwide Gross
$2.7M
Gross Profit
$1.9M
Return
3.3× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$292K
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~38/62, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (28% of the domestic run, typical for Animation) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
Where to Watch
Cast
Mima Kirigoe (voice)
Junko Iwao
Mima Kirigoe (voice)
Rumi (voice)
Rica Matsumoto
Rumi (voice)
Rei (voice)
Shiho Niiyama
Rei (voice)
Mamoru Uchida (voice)
Masaaki Okura
Mamoru Uchida (voice)
Tadokoro (voice)
Shinpachi Tsuji
Tadokoro (voice)
Yukiko (voice)
Emiko Furukawa
Yukiko (voice)
Tejima (voice)
Yosuke Akimoto
Tejima (voice)
Takao Shibuya (voice)
Yoku Shioya
Takao Shibuya (voice)
Sakuragi (voice)
Hideyuki Hori
Sakuragi (voice)
Eri Ochiai (voice)
Emi Shinohara
Eri Ochiai (voice)
Murano (voice)
Masashi Ebara
Murano (voice)
Kantoku (voice)
Kiyoyuki Yanada
Kantoku (voice)
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