# Perfect Blue (1998)

**Genres:** Animation, Thriller, Anime

**Duration:** 82 min

**Age rating:** FSK 16

**IMDb:** [8.0](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0156887/)

**Letterboxd:** [4.4](https://letterboxd.com/film/perfect-blue/)

**Rotten Tomatoes:** [Tomatometer: 85%, Popcornmeter: 89%](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/perfect_blue_1999)

## Description

A pop singer gives up her career to become an actress, but she slowly goes insane when she starts being stalked by an obsessed fan and what seems to be a ghost of her past.

## Details

**Premiere:** 06 Jul 2000

**Director:** Satoshi Kon

**Cast:** Junko Iwao, Rica Matsumoto, Shiho Niiyama, Masaaki Ōkura, Shinpachi Tsuji, Emiko Furukawa, Yōsuke Akimoto, Yoku Shioya, Hideyuki Hori, Emi Shinohara, Masashi Ebara, Kiyoyuki Yanada

**Countries:** Japan

**Languages:** Japanese, English

**Available versions:** OmU

**Open-air showtimes:** No

**Trailer:** [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrWausp8zDQ)

## Showtimes in Cologne in original language (OV, OmU, OmeU)

### 2026-05-26 (Tuesday)

- **[Cinedom](/cinemas/265-cinedom.md) (Neustadt-Nord):** [2026-05-26 20:00](https://iframe.shop.cinedom.de/cdk/movie/anime-night-2026-perfect-blue-(omu)/F8C30000012RFGKYDT/performance/A1F61000023RFGKYDT)  (OmU)
- **[Cineplex Filmpalast Köln](/cinemas/309-cineplex-filmpalast-koln.md) (Innenstadt):** [2026-05-26 20:30](https://tickets.cineplex.de/checkout/351/DB95BB00023FWBXJYB)  (OmU)
- **[Cineplex Leverkusen](/cinemas/290-cineplex-leverkusen.md) (Leverkusen):** [2026-05-26 20:30](https://tickets.cineplex.de/checkout/347/0C95BB00023FWBXJYB)  (OmU)
- **[Cineplex Troisdorf](/cinemas/291-cineplex-troisdorf.md) (Troisdorf):** [2026-05-26 20:30](https://tickets.cineplex.de/checkout/346/BA802000023RVABRCC)  (OmU)
- **[Lichtspiele Kalk](/cinemas/323-lichtspiele-kalk.md) (Kalk):** [2026-05-26 21:15](https://www.kinoheld.de/kino/koeln/lichtspiele-koeln-kalk/vorstellung/3531441058?appView=1)  (OmU)
- **[OFF Broadway](/cinemas/279-off-broadway.md) (Neustadt-Süd):** [2026-05-26 20:30](https://www.kinoheld.de/kino/koeln/off-broadway-kino-koeln/vorstellung/5CB71000023MHWBOTF?appView=1)  (OmU)
- **[Rex am Ring Lichtspiele](/cinemas/286-rex-am-ring-lichtspiele.md) (Innenstadt):** [2026-05-26 18:30](https://kinotickets.express/rex-koeln/booking/98650)  (OmU)

### 2026-06-01 (Monday)

- **[Cinenova](/cinemas/267-cinenova.md) (Ehrenfeld):** [2026-06-01 20:00](https://www.kinoheld.de/kino/koeln/cinenova-kino-koeln/vorstellung/456947?appView=1)  (OmU)