Perfect Blue: Yume Nara Samete

1h 43m
DramaMysteryThriller
6.6

Perfect Blue: Yume Nara Samete (パーfectブルー 夢なら醒めて, Pāfekuto Burū: Yume Nara Samete) is a 2002 Japanese psychological thriller film directed by Toshiki Satō and adapted from the novel of the same name by Yoshikazu Takeuchi. The story centers on Ai, a teen pop idol transitioning to a recording career, whose life unravels amid fixation from a obsessive convenience store clerk, leading to themes of distorted self-perception, narcissistic delusions, and violent events.

Cast

Ayaka Maeda
Ai Asaka
Masahiro Toda
Bando
Nao Omori
Toshihiko Horibe
Makiko Watanabe
Bando's Wife
Yumi Shimizu
Hiromi
Tarō Suwa
Convenience Store Manager
Yûki Ariga
Unknown
Kenji Mizuhashi
Unknown
Seiko Negishi
Unknown
Yûka Ohta
Unknown
Yoji Tanaka
Unknown
Akana Ueno
Unknown
Yumeka Sasaki
Unknown

Crew

Toshiki Sato
Director
Masahiro Kobayashi
Screenplay
Shinji Imaoka
Screenplay
Yoshikazu Takeuchi
Novel
Naoki Kaneko
Editor
Yasuhito Hironaka
Director of Photography
Keiko Satô
Executive Producer
Kazuto Morita
Producer
Isao Yamada
Original Music Composer
Michinori Toyoda
Original Music Composer
Tomoo Haraguchi
Makeup Effects

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