Perfect Blue Quotes

  • Me-Mania: You bad girl... you have to follow the script!

  • Mima Kirigoe: Please, Rumi! It is you, isn't it? Wake up!

    Mima's Ghost: You're the one who needs to wake up.

  • Actor playing rapist: I'm really sorry.

    Mima Kirigoe: Oh no, it's alright.

  • Mima Kirigoe: Excuse me... who are you? Excuse me... who are you?

  • Mima Kirigoe: What? This isn't true! I didn't write this!

    Mima's Ghost: Of course you didn't. The real Mima is writing this.

  • Mima's Ghost: Nobody cares for you anymore. You're tarnished and you're filthy.

  • Mima's Ghost: Let's end all of this. We don't need two Mimas now, do we?

    Mima Kirigoe: I am Mima!

    Mima's Ghost: [laughter] That's funny. Mima is a pop idol... and you're just a dirty old imposter

    Mima Kirigoe: You're the imposter! I'm not gonna take this anymore!

  • [Last line]

    Mima Kirigoe: No, I'm the real thing.

    [smiles]

  • Rumi: Are you all right? We're going back to Mima's room.

  • Mima Kirigoe: No... no! This is not my room!

  • Kid in the audience: [when they leave the Powertrons live show] Not as well as on TV.

    Kid: No, that's not the same.

  • Mima Kirigoe: [Talking to the audience after the incident] The truth is that today more than ever, I wanted to have a good time with you.

    Yamashiro: These thing is told by the big stars, but not by you!...

    [he tries to drop a can to Mima, but he's stopped by the guard]

  • Tadokoro: [reviewing the script for Mima's next episode] Mima's character, Yoko Takakura, completely changes personalities when she's raped by the customers at a local strip show.

    Rumi: A RAPE scene? You have got to be out of your mind!

    Tadokoro: It's pivotal, Rumi. She's the key figure in the second half.

    Rumi: PIVOTAL? Mima is a pop idol!

  • Eri Ochiai: Illusions can't come to life.

  • Mima Kirigoe: I don't know anything about myself anymore!

    Eri Ochiai: Well... How do you think you know that person you were a second ago is the same person you are now? A continuous stream of memories. Given only that, we all create illusions within ourselves, saying that we each have only one fixed persona.

    Mima Kirigoe: Sensei, I'm scared that my other self will do something that I don't know about...

    Eri Ochiai: It's all right. There is no way illusions can come to life.

Extended Reading
  • Jaron 2022-03-27 09:01:10

    The mind-fuck in the second half is so powerful that any shot at the end doubts it's real. It is no longer easy for many "brain-burning" movies to use one-third of their editing skills for works from 20 years ago.

  • Angela 2021-12-31 08:02:55

    Looking at Jin Min’s interpretation, he himself mentioned the imitation of the bathroom lens in "Requiem of Dreams": "What kind of tribute, it is obviously plagiarism! The heroine sitting in the bathtub is Jennifer Connelly. Later, I and her Flew on the same plane, but she was in first class and I was in economy class." Hahahahahaha