Perfect Blue

Movie • 1997 • Animation  Report
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mivaldi
There are no dogs in this movie, however several pet fish die offscreen.
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Does an animal die?
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mi-16evil
Several fish die. Not brutally but they are either not fed or possibly poisoned.
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deniallol
Dead fish.
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Does a cat die?
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cl0wn
some pet fish, but the actual death is not shown on screen, just their little floating bodies :(
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Are there bugs?
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Glacion
A character repeatedly reads a blog that describes their routines and day-to-day schedules in detail despite not writing it themselves, and come to rely on it as reality better than their own memory. A character is also forcibly relocated to a near-perfect copy of their own room.
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DustinKarpey
A main conflict in the movie is the main character being stalked by another character
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vallraiene
we see some cigarette smoking but thats all
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cl0wn
the main character has her ankles tied together before escaping
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MrMist
Not "technically". But it might as well be, it's an acted rape scene.
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Main character willingly sits underwater in her bathtub while having an episode
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ldsjgklsdlgksdlf
A scene of sexual assault is filmed in-universe with Mima as the victim. Though it's not real, it is explicit and traumatic for Mima and the other actor. There is a real attempted sexual assault near the end of the movie, but it is unsuccessful.
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Glacion
Not technically torture, but there is a home invasion/murder scene that's rather prolonged.
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AntonellaBunny
There's a scene near the end where Mima chokes Rumi and she struggles to breath.
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CoolGuyJonah
A man is stabbed in the penis with an ice pick. It's not shown directly, but there is a close up of the ice pick being stabbed into his pants, leaving a small hole gushing blood. Ouch.
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DustinKarpey
The murderer of the movie, disguised as a pizza deliverer, goes to the house of a photographer who took pictures of the main character nude. She stabs him in the eye with a screwdriver. In another scene a man is shown dead with his eyes gouged out.
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There is a scene where Mima is holding her head underwater in a bathtub and screaming inaudibly/ with gargled voice and you can see the oxygen disappearing from her mouth. I wouldn't say it is a scene where someone asphyxiates, but if you get triggered by this sort of scenes, I'd keep this in mind.
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teapotcutie
A hand is stabbed.
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The stalker character is pictured physically malformed and their teeth are also made to look like that (wonky, couple of teeth missing etc). Teeth are big part of their facial expressions, so they are visible a lot during the stalker's screen time.
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cl0wn
our main character does fall down a flight of stairs while chasing what seems to be a figment of her imagination, she isn't hurt at all by falling though
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teapotcutie
Two people fall from a balcony but don't die.
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Mima isn't a minor (she's 21) but she's sexualized by older men on multiple occasions. It's NOT glorified at all but it happens.
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Does a kid die?
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cl0wn
it isn't technically sacrifice, but someone does purposefully impale themselves on a shard of glass in front of the main character
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cl0wn
the main character is assaulted and taken into another room for the purpose of sexual abuse and then murder, and it is also implied that the main character is taken to a strange copy of her own room by the antagonist unknowingly
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spacefuneral
Mima takes a bath at one point.
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mi-16evil
Arguable but I'd say yes. Mima is tormented by a ghostly version of herself.
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aridavid
While Mima is taking the subway her reflection in the door windows briefly changes to her pop idol persona, after this moment there is sudden bright flash and sound akin to thunder.
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Are there razors?
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Glacion
At the film's climax, a character is shown to either have developed violent delusions or a split personality.
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LadyLavender
Graphic sound effects of characters being stabbed are present
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Y0kale
SAFE!
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vallraiene
at the very end. it's brief.
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M0USEB0NES
There’s a brief, still image of a bloody needle in the background of one scene
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cl0wn
intense music, gore audio, screaming, yelling etc.
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There is an attempted suicide by a character involving a passing vehicle. They are not successful.
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KamiSteele
DID, which is a trauma-based disorder, is a plot point. Mima is playing a character with the condition in the in-universe detective drama "Double Bind", whose gangrape at a nightclub is depicted in graphic detail. Mima finds filming this scene traumatizing in and of itself. The movie teases the idea that Mima herself may or may not have the disorder, with her losing track of time, seeing hallucinations of her CHAM-era self, and some scenes depicting Mima committing the murders. The movie's plot twist is that Rumi, Mima's manager, is having episodes where she believes she's Mima while carrying out the murders, whether out of psychosis or dissociation (the movie suggests the latter).
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KamiSteele
The true villain turns out to be a middle-aged woman who is an ex-idol singer, much like Mima. It's revealed that she has episodes where she believes she *is* Mima, complete with wearing her (ill-fitting) pop idol clothes. This ties into the themes of idol culture and how it can be exploitative.
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ohaidoggy
Not intentionally per say, but Mima squeezes a teacup until it breaks on her hands
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KamiSteele
The character Mima is playing in-universe is described as having both DID and killed her sister. The movie plays with the idea that Mima herself may or may not have a dissociative disorder of her own. The plot twist of the movie is that the villain developed a second personality who believes herself to be the real Mima, who goes on to attack the actual Mima before being institutionalized. It's actually a reasonably more accurate depiction of the disorder than how it's typically portrayed in media (caused by trauma, memory loss, confusion, issues with identity, 'missing time', etc.), but still falls into the 'serial killer alter' trope.
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cl0wn
the antagonist purposely impales themselves on a piece of glass at the end
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teapotcutie
Not exactly mental illness, but main villain is meant to have DID and a movie Mima stars in has her be a killer whose a system.
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ohaidoggy
the "camera" may not be real but the movement in the shots is meant to emulate motion regardless, there are a couple scenes where mima is running and there a punch shots
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Does a baby cry?
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Camilleon
The stalker/antagonist has a visual deformity meant to make him appear more "creepy".
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velveteenrabbit
There are no verbal fat jokes, but during a chase scene near the end, a fat character is wearing an outfit too small for them, and the visual effect of the ill-fitting clothing seems to be meant to add to the horror of the scene.
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ohaidoggy
no but the show mima is in has a line that references a transmisogynistic trope of murderers killing women to wear their skin and become women (ex. buffalo bill). luckily this isnt a plot thats in the actual movie
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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KamiSteele
Yes, and it happens in sexually exploitative contexts. Mima is asked to film a scene where her character is gang-raped. She is also asked to do a photoshoot with a sleazy photographer, complete with nudity. She comes close to getting raped for real right before the climax. In short, most of the nudity is unsexy due to it happening in creepy scenarios.
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cl0wn
the main character acts out a rape scene and a scene where they're a stripper, which are sexualized by the producers and film crew, also they do a photo shoot where the photographer pushes her to continue removing clothing and is clearly sexualizing her
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vallraiene
a lot, and lots of uncensored nudity
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ohaidoggy
someone young enough to believe in santa should not watch this
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teapotcutie
The Japanese dub has had some interpret it to mean the villain actually won. Would say its meant to have the heroine win though.
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cl0wn
there's 2 scenes where someone nearly gets run over by a car
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cl0wn
not a crash but someone almost gets ran over twice
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Glacion
In two separate scenes characters are almost hit by speeding vehicles. The first scene goes unresolved and potentially didn't happen, the second scene is resolved when one character shoves the other out of the way.
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vallraiene
throughout the entire movie yes. it is extremely bloody
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deniallol
There are no guns in the entire film.
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There is a scene where Mima is holding her head underwater in a bathtub and screaming inaudibly/ with gargled voice and you can see the oxygen disappearing from her mouth. I wouldn't say it is a drowning scene, but if you get triggered by scenes where someone's head is underwater, keep this in mind.
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