Perfect Blue: Yume Nara Samete

Perfect Blue: Yume Nara Samete

103 mins | Drama, Mystery | Aug. 24, 2002

Asaka Ai is a budding starlet waiting for her big break to make it into the limelight. Under the dedicated tutelage of her manager Bando she shuffles from one photo shoot to the next, most often resulting in her image being used on various advertising posters. With the help of a catchy tune, Ai and Bando anticipate she will finally break out of merely poster appearances and into television commercials and from there, real stardom. The song is entitled "If this is a Dream Wake Me" (Yume Nara Samete) and was written by Ai's friend Hiromi just prior to Hiromi jumping headlong off a tall building. But as things started to go well, a stalker shows up knowing anything and everything about Ai...

Perfect Blue: Yume Nara Samete

103 mins | Drama, Mystery | Aug. 24, 2002

Perfect Blue: Yume Nara Samete
Asaka Ai is a budding starlet waiting for her big break to make it into the limelight. Under the dedicated tutelage of her manager Bando she shuffles from one photo shoot to the next, most often resulting in her image being used on various advertising posters. With the help of a catchy tune, Ai and Bando anticipate she will finally break out of merely poster appearances and into television commercials and from there, real stardom. The song is entitled "If this is a Dream Wake Me" (Yume Nara Samete) and was written by Ai's friend Hiromi just prior to Hiromi jumping headlong off a tall building. But as things started to go well, a stalker shows up knowing anything and everything about Ai...
IMDb rating 5.8
Producers
Original title PERFECT BLUE 夢なら醒めて
Directors Toshiki Sato
Writers Shinji Imaoka, Masahiro Kobayashi, Yoshikazu Takeuchi

Cast

Ayaka Maeda

as Ai Asaka

Masahiro Toda

as Bando, Ai's manager

Nao Omori

as Toshihiko Horibe

Makiko Watanabe

as Bando's wife

Yumi Shimizu

as Hiromi

Taro Suwa

as Convenience store manager