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A Balasaur Score of 79 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 8/10, Rotten Tomatoes 85%, Metacritic 67/100. Audiences rate it 13 points higher than critics do. Scores higher than 91% of the 320 1990s animation movies in this catalog. It runs a compact 1h 21m. Streaming on Max.
Synopsis
Rising pop star Mima Kirigoe quits singing to pursue a career as an actress. After she takes up a role on a popular detective show, her handlers and collaborators begin turning up murdered. Harboring feelings of guilt and haunted by visions of her former self, Mima's reality and fantasy meld into a frenzied paranoia.
Ratings
IMDb8/10
Rotten Tomatoes85%
Metacritic67/100
Audiences rate it 13 points higher than critics do.
3,335 audience votes
Key crew
- Satoshi KonDirector
- Sadayuki MuraiScreenplay
- Masahiro IkumiOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Junko IwaoMima Kirigoe (voice)
- Rica MatsumotoRumi (voice)
- Shiho NiiyamaRei (voice)
- Masaaki OkuraMamoru Uchida (voice)
- Shinpachi TsujiTadokoro (voice)
- Emiko FurukawaYukiko (voice)
- Yosuke AkimotoTejima (voice)
- Yoku ShioyaTakao Shibuya (voice)
- Hideyuki HoriSakuragi (voice)
- Emi ShinoharaEri Ochiai (voice)
- Masashi EbaraMurano (voice)
- Kiyoyuki YanadaKantoku (voice)
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Themes
careerrapebased on novel or bookparanoiastalkercelebritysingerstalkingfamefemale protagonistpsychological thrillermental illness
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