Perfect Blue Deluxe Edition (18) 4K/Blu-Ray

Deluxe edition contains a 132-page book, 10 art cards, replica quad poster in a rigid slipcase, and the film on UHD Blu-ray with a 4K SDR presentation, featuring English and Japanese DTS-HD Master Audio tracks with English subtitles. Also contains the film on standard Blu-Ray. This release also includes a bonus Blu-ray disc featuring the full-length Satoshi Kon lecture (117 minutes), offering up a comprehensive study and breakdown of the film from the director himself.

One of the most ambitious animated films to come out of Japan (or anywhere, for that matter), Perfect Blue is an adult psycho-thriller that uses the freedom of the animated image to create the subjective reality of a young actress haunted by the ghost of her past identity. Mima is a singer who leaves her teeny-bop trio to become an actress in a violent television series, a career move that angers her fans, who prefer to see her as the pert, squeaky-clean pop idol. Plagued by self-doubt and tormented by humiliating compromises, she begins to be stalked, in her waking and sleeping moments, by an accusing alter ego who claims to be "the real Mima", until she collapses into madness as her co-workers are brutally slain around her.

Director Satoshi Kon (Millennium Actress, Paranoia Agent), adapting the novel by Yoshikazu Takeuchi, shows us the world from her schizophrenic perspective: days blur, dreams cross over into the waking world, the TV show blends into her real life, until her life merges with her part and she can't separate the ghosts from the real-life stalkers. Though the pat ending sweeps the psychosis and anxiety away with nary an emotional scar, it remains a smart, stylish thriller and one of the most intelligent and compelling uses of animation in recent years. Though tame by the extreme standards of "adult anime", there is nudity and a few sexually provocative scenes, and the animation is detailed and stylised.

Publisher: Anime Limited
Released: December 8th 2025
Classification: 18
Language: English, Japanese
Subtitles: English
Running Time: 81mins