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Perfect Blue (1997)

Directed by Satoshi Kon · Cinematography by Hisao Shirai

82 min59 frames

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What is Perfect Blue about?

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.

Perfect Blue is a 1997 Japanese animated psychological horror film directed by Satoshi Kon. It is loosely based on the novel Perfect Blue: Complete Metamorphosis by Yoshikazu Takeuchi, with a screenplay by Sadayuki Murai. Featuring the voices of Junko Iwao, Rica Matsumoto, Shiho Niiyama, Masaaki Okura, Shinpachi Tsuji and Emiko Furukawa, the plot follows a member of a Japanese idol group who retires from music to pursue an acting career. As she becomes a victim of stalking by her obsessive fan, gruesome murders take place, and she begins losing her grip on reality. The film deals with the blurring of the line between fantasy and reality, a commonly found theme in Kon's other works, such as Millennium Actress (2001), Paranoia Agent (2004), and Paprika (2006).

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What does the cinematography of Perfect Blue look like?

Sampled across 59 frames, the coverage of Perfect Blue leans on medium shots (39% of the sample) and close-ups (31%). Cinematographer Hisao Shirai keeps 51% of it in naturalistic light. Night and dusk account for 44% of the frames. Deep focus keeps foreground and background readable at once in 76% of the frames. The production design places the film in the 1990s.

What is the color palette of Perfect Blue?

The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Perfect Blue (1997) are #302b2c, #f5f4f2, #f3ceca, #0c0d0e, #50504c, #eeead4 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.

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