I love how he uses "our" and "we" when talking about making the film, acknowledging that the film was a group effort, unlike other directors who tend to stroke their ego in interviews and say it was all thanks to them. Such a great artist yet also very humble even when becoming succesfull, very rare these days
A movie would not exist without a director. I values director more than anyone. A sound recorder is not worth acknowledging compare to a film director like are you joking ?
@@limeyfigdet7460 alright then you can answer some questions that I had after watching the movie Why was Me mania's eye gouged out even though Mima struck him on the head with the hammer
Awais Ali shah just finished perfect blue, i’m so interested in his ability to create such a masterpiece that keeps you guessing the whole time. it was so great. i didn’t know he passed. i’m going to check out his other work, he seemed like such a creative genius.
It's really crazy how quickly things can change. Four short years ago, someone was merely excited for another movie from this person, and now, we know we will never see another.
It didn’t feel like it was confusing, but towards the end I was trying to figure out what was real and what was just imagined. Beautiful film. One of the greatest psychological thriller/suspense films I’ve ever watched.
Just saw perfect blue again in theaters as a fathom event. What was really cool is this was the post credits bonus feature, just properly de-interlaced and the best quality from the master tape (though it was still 4:3 magnetic tape quality). Kind of weird seeing on the big screen.
I can't stop thinking about him I was just talking to my sister about his new film a week ago. And it's embarrassing when people place him as an anime director I know it's his medium but he was a great filmmaker period. I think it's kinda disrespectful to have him as the "such and such" to or of anime. He was him. And his works belong up there with masterpiece works like lain, boogiepop phantom, monster, evangelion, patlabor, flcl, summer wars etc. I'm sorry RIP.
Rest In Peace Satoshi-Sama. Another genius has faded away from this world. It was shocking to hear that you've passed away. Thank you for everything. You will remain as one of the most remarkable directors in the anime industry, especially among us fans.
I love Satoshi Kons works! Ive seen from his first movie to his anime seiries Paranoia Agent, the art work in each thing he does is simply more diffrent then big eyed girls in most anime movies. I love how he keeps people guessing as well makes you think. I must say the man is a genius! x]
It's so sad that when the video was uploaded he was still alive, and the fact that i'm watching it knowing that the same man on the video died two years later.. Just depresses me.
"... As we've come to know from his extraordinary final letter, Satoshi Kon was a man of grace as well as genius, and of the money his films made, he graciously said that they got what they deserved. But I don't have Kon-sensei's grace, and in sadness and anger I say, no, they did not get nearly what they deserved."
Perfect blue and director's Satoshi purchase of the interviewer's criticism was a shocking surprise as a Manga fan Mr Kon's reaction should be for the rerelease of the original Movie Set.
An anime movie called Dreaming Machine production was stopped due to his death . Madhouse tried to complete the film by Satoshi kon's directorial tapes but due to lack of funds they stopped the production . In 2018 , Madhouse co-founder Maruyama said that they wanted to make the film even after the lack of finances but wouldn't do so because no Japanese director could match Kon's level of ability I know this is late but R.I.P Satoshi kon . Would have loved to see more of your works
It's interesting to see all of the in depth reviews and analysis videos for Perfect Blue. All of them go into much more detail and explanation about what the movie about and it's messages than the director himself.
"…in his own country, Kon couldn't count on one-twentieth the audience a Ghibli film could; not one-fiftieth, not even one-hundredth. From the perspective of a foreign critic, Kon was so neglected by Japanese audiences he hardly registered with them at all. ...
I just heard about this. It was funny because I was watching Paranoia Agent last night, and had a very disturbing thought about his death, and then...damn it. :'(
Thse clothes were *real*. I belive it was Rumi as the "imaginary Mima" who bought them in Harajuku. She put them in the real Mima's bedroom. She was constantly rearranging things in Mima's room so that's why it was in her closet. (Watched the movie twice yesterday and read a bunch of explanations this morning).
Edit: Finally found the scene where she buys the clothes, right after she breaks the tea cup. As I suspected, we don't actually see the pizza delivery clothes inside the bag. So there is no solid proof that she bought those clothes, merely that she bought *some* clothes that went in that bag. Either Mima or Rumi could have easily taken whatever was in that bag out. With all of this said, especially considering that Mima states that she doesnt' even remember going shopping, it's entirely possible that she could have bought pizza delivery clothes. We just don't know for sure, either way. But it's enough to carry on with what I originally said, below: So to start out, I definitely believe the clothes were real as well. It's just a matter of how they got there. Can you point out where in the movie we see the picture of her purchasing those clothes? Are we sure they are pizza delivery guy clothes? Or do we just see the bag? Depending on what you say with regards to that, at a high level, I can imagine this scenario: Mima buys clothes which she puts in that bag. Which clothes? Unknown atm. Rumi sees the nude photoshoot and decides to kill the photographer. by dressing as a pizza guy. Days pass before the police find his body. In the meantime, Rumi has time to put the murder clothes into the bag in the close, easily finding time to visit and leave before Mima chains her door for the night. Mima has a dream where she expresses her suppressed rage for the photographer by dreaming about killing him. What the viewer actually sees is neither her dream nor the actual murder, but a mix of the two, but leaning towards the real murder. It can't be 100% the actual murder, though, since he is watching Double Bind on his tv, which isn't released until later in the film. She wakes up and hears about the murder. After shuffling over to her closet, she is in shock to see the bag, not because it contains pizza delivery clothes in particular, but because she just had a dream about killing the photographer, and now she finds bloody clothes in her closet. It still begs a few questions, though. If Mima actually did go out any buy "pizza guy" clothes, wouldn't the people with her stop and ask her why she was buying such strange clothes out of the blue? I guess that would go the same for if Rumi was buying them, although I feel like Mima has a greater chance of being surrounded by people all the time while out, than Rumi. Secondly, isn't it a bit convenient that Mima happens to dream about murdering the photographer just before news about it gets out? And thirdly, why, when Mima is about to act the fake murder scene a bit after the news gets out, does she have such a vivid image of the photographer with his eyes gouged out? Was the information readily available via news that he had had them gouged out? If the answer is no, then we can know for sure that she murdered him. But I don't think it's ever made clear exactly how much detail about any of the murders is let out and seen by her. Even if she did know about the general circumstances of his death, though, even with her being insane at this point, would it be enough for her to conjure up such a vivid image of his dead corpse? Maybe you guys have thoughts about this, and I would love to hear them. To summarize, I certainly want to believe that, at best, Mima was innocent of all murder, but at minimum that it is ambiguous. I'm honestly leaning more towards her having committed at least the one murder, though, sadly. Yet there are still enough unanswered questions (in my mind, anyway), that it's plausible there is a less straightforward answer for who did the murdering and why she has bloody clothes in her closet, than that she simply murdered him, put the clothes in the closet, and then dreamed about it, finding the clothes again after she woke up. For me, the real issue therefore isn't how the clothes got there. It could be explained either by Mima doing the murder or Rumi. So the real questions are: Why did Mima happen to dream about a very specific kind of murder (eye gouging and repeated stabbing) just before news came out about the real murder, with the same murder method? And why did Mima later have such a specific vivid image of his murdered corpse? Take note that the fake "corpse" doesn't have any indication of a representation of eye gouging, merely multiple stabbings. One thought about the specificity of the eye gouging. To expand on what I said earlier: At one point, we know she learns about the manager's death in the elevator. We don't know how much detail is given. But we do learn, later on, that she hears on the news that the photographer's death was of a similar nature. So *if* she learned about the eye gouging from the first case, she could have inferred that it's what happened to the photographer. But even with that *abstract* knowledge, would that be enough for her imagination to run wild and hallucinate an eye-gouged photographer in place of the fake corpse? Or are the details much to specific to be coincidence? It once again brings me to question exactly how much of the pizza murder scene was "real". Did she imagine being a pizza person? Or, since she already knew from reading her movie's script that there was going to be a screwdriver scene, did she dream about killing him that way? I'd like to point out that there is a certain symbolism in gouging out the eyes of a photographer who did wrong against her by photographing her. I would also like to point out that the weapon used in the dream/hallucination murder is the same used in the fake acting scene. Coincidence? No. Meaning? I'm not sure, yet. Why would Rumi want to go through the trouble of making Mima feel like she was the murderer, by the way? I think that's another really important question. For most of the movie, she clearly shows love and support for Mima. Yet by the end, she feels it is necessary to kill (real) Mima in order to make way for her "real" Mima. Where, in between all of this, would Rumi feel it's a good idea to gaslight Mima? One last question, while I'm thinking of this. Just before the fake murder scene, Mima asks herself if she is really still alive or if things are a dream. She talks about being hit by a truck. *what* truck? Was there some incident where she was almost hit by a truck before this moment? The only near-hit incident that clearly comes to my mind is when Rumi is almost hit by a truck near the end of the movie. If that's the only truck incident, it makes me wonder anew whether it really *is* Mima imagining/remembering the dead corpse, though. What do you think?
@@Corranhorn122 theres one scene where mima was apparently hit by a truck before she woke up. i believe the cham mima illusion(?) led her from the recording studio where cham was recording the podcast to the main road downstairs, which she ran into and was hit by creepy stalker guy driving a truck.
The interviewer is overwhelmed or something? The question he ask are all very shallow like he doesn't know how to interact with an introvert genius. I mean I probably wouldn't either, but really this is all we have from Satoshi Koa and it's a failed interview with no depth.
