Perfect Blue (1998)

Satoshi Kon · 81 min · Letterboxd ↗

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.

Perfect Blue screens 8 times at Prince Charles Cinema between Sunday 4 October and Sunday 1 November.