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Perfect Blue (1997)

Film

DirectorSatoshi Kon

Meta takes4

Figures

Locations

The "Mima's Room" website

Form & technique

Mima's nude photo shoot and the rape scene in "Double Bind" → The Pleasures of Looking
The film's seamless "match cut" editing style
The film's non-linear and repetitive plot structure → The Unreliable Narrator

Tropes

The phantom "idol Mima" that haunts Mima Kirigoe → The Unspeakable Void
The doppelgänger figure (Idol Mima and Rumi's impersonation) → The Uncanny
The stalker, Me-Mania (Mamoru Uchida)

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Pretty Woman (1990) — via The Pleasures of Looking
Full Metal Jacket (1987) — via The Pleasures of Looking
When Harry Met Sally... (1989) — via The Pleasures of Looking