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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
Like Perfect Blue, it turns performance pressure and obsessive self-scrutiny into a feverish psychological spiral, using bodily detail and subjective imagery to keep reality dangerously unstable.
02
Why this pick
Its dreamlike Hollywood nightmare shares Perfect Blue’s fascination with constructed identity, celebrity fantasy, and a disorienting shift between what is performed, remembered, and real.
03
Why this pick
Satoshi Kon again blurs inner experience and external reality with precise, propulsive editing; its more exuberant dream logic retains Perfect Blue’s unsettling uncertainty about perception.
04
Why this pick
Kon’s fluid transitions between an actress’s life, roles, and memories echo Perfect Blue’s interest in performance and identity, but with a wistful, romantic emotional current rather than pure dread.
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Why this pick
This cool, unnerving Japanese psychological thriller builds dread through restrained pacing and fractured certainty, making ordinary spaces feel as threatening as Perfect Blue’s collapsing sense of self.
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01 / THE STORY
A pop singer gives up her career to become an actress, but she slowly goes insane when she starts being stalked by an obsessed fan and what seems to be a ghost of her past.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Mima Kirigoe
Rumi
Tadokoro
Uchida
Shibuya
Sakuragi
Eri Ochiai
Murano (voice)
