Perfect Blue

In Perfect Blue, the story of Mima Kirigoe is told, who wants to advance her career and therefore leaves the J-Pop group CHAM! to pursue acting. Despite warnings from her manager, she takes a role in a crime drama that is meant to change her clean and innocent idol image, but it also places a heavy psychological burden on her. On her way home, Mima sees a girl who looks strikingly similar to her, dressed in her idol costume, claiming to be the real Mima. On the internet, she discovers a website that reveals her most intimate thoughts. Additionally, she increasingly receives threatening letters from fans who cannot accept her image change and start to stalk her. Mima experiences firsthand the harshness of the film industry, and when CHAM! finally achieves the long-awaited breakthrough without her, everything in her life seems to fall apart. The boundaries between reality and illusion become increasingly blurred for her.