![]() Feeling like something big needs to change, she plans to give her image a major update. Kirigoe Mima is in the third year of her career as a pure and innocent pop idol. “ THE ORIGINAL NOVEL THAT INSPIRED THE CULT CLASSIC FILM BY SATOSHI KON Yoshikazu Takeuchi doesn’t have a ton of writing credits under his belt that I can find (perhaps English language sources are incomplete), but what a way to make a splash with a book like this! There are actually two novels in “the series” by the author, and I plan to read the second book fairly soon. The two projects are similar, but very different in many ways, making this a worthwhile read by fans of the film without it being a complete retread. ![]() Few people, however realize that the story from Perfect Blue was actually, in itself, an adaptation of a book by the same name by author Yoshikazu Takeuchi. Often imitated, this film was a shock of psychological horror that many did not expect from an animated film at the time. Like many, my first taste of a work by Satoshi Kon was the film Perfect Blue from 1997. If you take anything from this review, I recommend venturing into his works because filmmakers like him don’t come around very often. He struggled to get films financed at times and died before he started to get much recognition. Kon saw himself as a failure because his films, despite critical acclaim, were generally not big box-office powerhouses and retained a niche audience in japan. There are even directors here that have built a career on the back of his work, while taking all of the credit, such as Darren Aronofsky who routinely plagiarized entire scenes from Kon’s films. He was a visionary anime director that seemed to be more popular as a cult filmmaker here in The West versus his own home country, which is an absolute shame. This was the untimely death of writer/director Satoshi Kon of pancreatic cancer in 2010. Usually, I’m not too affected by celebrity deaths, however, I can recall one instance when I was fairly upset about one. ![]()
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