Perfect Blue

Fujiko Chiyoko, a movie star who swept Japan by storm, vanished from the screen at the height of her fame thirty years ago. Thirty years later, after much effort, one of Chiyoko's devoted fans finally finds her living in seclusion in a quiet mountain lodge and presents her with a mysterious key she had carelessly lost long ago. The mysterious key seems to open the door to memory, leading Chiyoko into the sea of recollection and uncovering a love story unknown to anyone else. The tale appears to overflow from the river of Chiyoko's glorious era, flowing into an ocean composed of her countless films and images; it also seems to gallop in from the distant Sengoku period, breaking into an endless expanse of time and space. The entranced fan sways along with Chiyoko through the troughs of her reverse-flowing memories, experiencing her poignant love filled with joy and sorrow. Amidst the surging waves of time and space, he suddenly realizes the profound longing that spans a millennium. The mysterious key unlocks the memories Chiyoko had sealed away, revealing her crucial secret. It is precisely within the ruthless torrent of time, when memory and love intersect most brilliantly, that the truest and most eternal image of the legendary star Chiyoko emerges.