Mamoru Uchida (Me-Mania) ( 内田 守, Uchida Mamoru) As Mima enters her car, she smiles at herself in the rear-view mirror before declaring, "No, I'm real." They think she is a lookalike, as the real Mima Kirigoe would supposedly have no reason to visit a mental institution. As Mima leaves the hospital, she overhears two nurses talking about her. Mima says she's learned a lot from her experience, thanks to Rumi. Rumi's doctor says that she still believes she is a pop idol most of the time. Some time later, Mima is now a well-known actress and visits Rumi in a mental institution. With that, Mima's hallucinations seem to be over. After freeing herself, Rumi hallucinates the lights of an oncoming truck as stage lights and steps out into the road to pose in front of the approaching vehicle, but Mima manages to save her from being run over at the last second. Mima incapacitates Rumi with a mirror shard in self-defense. At wit's end, Rumi's "Mima" personality chases Mima through the city to murder her. She also reveals her motives: she is displeased by Mima retiring from the idol industry and hence, seeks to destroy and replace her in order to 'redeem' her image. Rumi previously developed a second personality who believed herself to be the "real Mima", using information from Mima's confiding in her as the basis for "Mima's Room". Mima is found backstage by Rumi and taken back to Rumi's home, where she wakes up in a room modelled on Mima's own room, only to discover that Rumi was the culprit behind "Mima's Room", the serial murders, and the folie à deux that manipulated and scapegoated Me-Mania. After the rest of the filming staff have left the studio, Me-Mania, acting on e-mailed instructions from "the real Mima" to "eliminate the impostor", attempts to rape and kill her, but Mima kills him with a blow to the temple from a hammer. Mima manages to finish shooting Double Bind, the final scene of which reveals that her character killed and assumed the identity of her sister due to trauma-induced dissociative identity disorder. Mima finds evidence which makes her appear to be the prime suspect, and her mental instability makes her doubt her own memories and innocence, as she recalls brutally murdering pornographer Murano. Several people who had been involved in her acting are murdered. Between the ongoing stresses of filming Double Bind, her lingering regret over leaving CHAM!, her paranoia of being stalked, and her increasing obsession with "Mima's Room", Mima begins to suffer from psychosis: in particular, struggling to distinguish real life from her work in show business, and having repeated apparently unreal sightings of her former self, "the real Mima". The reflection claims she's "the real Mima". On her way home, she sees her reflection dressed in her former idol outfit. Despite Rumi's objections, Mima accepts the role, although this leaves her severely affected. Mima's first job is a minor role in a television detective drama called Double Bind however, Tadokoro lobbies the producers of Double Bind, and succeeds in securing Mima a larger part that involves a rape scene. Mima confides in Rumi about "Mima's Room", but is advised to ignore it. During her acting career, she is joined by manager and former pop-idol Rumi Hidaka and her agent, Tadokoro. Following directions from a fan letter, Mima discovers a website called "Mima's Room" containing public diary entries written from her perspective, which has her daily life and thoughts recorded in great detail. Many of her fans get frustrated and disappointed by her change from a clean-cut image, particularly an obsessive fan known as Mamoru Uchida or Me-Mania, who starts to stalk her. Mima Kirigoe, member of a J-pop idol group named "CHAM!", decides to leave the group to become a full-time actress. The film deals with the blurring of the line between fantasy and reality, a commonly found theme in Kon's other works, such as Millennium Actress (2001) and Paprika (2006). As she becomes a victim of stalking by her obsessive fan, gruesome murders take place, and she begins losing her grip on reality. Featuring the voices of Junko Iwao, Rica Matsumoto, Shiho Niiyama, Masaaki Okura, Shinpachi Tsuji and Emiko Furukawa, the plot follows a member of a Japanese idol group who retires from music to pursue an acting career. It is based on the novel Perfect Blue: Complete Metamorphosis ( パーフェクトブルー:完全変態, Pāfekuto Burū: Kanzen Hentai ) by Yoshikazu Takeuchi, with a screenplay written by Sadayuki Murai. Perfect Blue ( Japanese: パーフェクトブルー, Hepburn: Pāfekuto Burū) is a 1997 Japanese adult-oriented animated psychological thriller film directed by Satoshi Kon.
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