Film · 1997 · Films · 1990s
Perfect Blue
Scored from 270 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).
Summary
Mima Kirigoe, a member of the Japanese pop trio CHAM!, leaves idol singing for acting, taking a role in a lurid TV crime serial and posing for nude photographs over her manager Rumi's objections. As she sheds her wholesome image, she discovers a website called 'Mima's Room' that narrates her private life in her own voice, and a disfigured fan begins shadowing her. Hallucinations of her abandoned idol self start appearing, and the men who steered her toward the new career turn up murdered. Satoshi Kon's animated psychological thriller, adapted from Yoshikazu Takeuchi's novel, dissolves the line between Mima's role, her memory and her waking life.
Perfect Blue (1997) is a film IMDb files under the animation, crime and drama genres. It was made in Japan, in Japanese. Its certificate is R. It runs 1h 21m.
Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,119 of whom clear the calibration test. 4,081 other films from the 1990s form the cohort it is ranked inside. The calibrated figure is built from 270 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 274 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where Perfect Blue lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against Films · 1990s (4,082 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 270.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
