Perfect Blue (2018): trivia & fun facts

Fun facts

• The original author, Yoshikazu Takeuchi, allegedly first planned a live-action film based on his novel.
• Masao Maruyama, a producer at Madhouse at the time, appreciated Kon's work on the OVA JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and contacted him to ask if he would be interested in directing in the fall of 1994.
• American performer Madonna incorporated clips from Perfect Blue into a remix of her song "What It Feels Like for a Girl" as a video interlude during her Drowned World Tour in 2001.
• Initially, Murai wrote the first draft of the script, and Kon added or removed ideas from it.
• Aronofsky acknowledged the similarities to Perfect Blue in his 2010 film Black Swan, but denied that Black Swan was inspired by Perfect Blue.
• Psychological horror was not a mainstream genre in Japanese animation, and there was no precedent for it at the time, so it would normally have been rejected.
• Perfect Blue premiered on August 5, 1997, at the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal, Canada, and had its general release in Japan on February 28, 1998.
• The film was well received critically in the festival circuit, winning awards at the 1997 Fantasia Festival in Montréal, and Fantasporto Film Festival in Portugal.

Source: Wikipedia

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