Perfect Blue: Interview with Director Satoshi Kon

[@islandboy9381]

I love how he uses "our" and "we" when talking about making the film, acknowledging that the film was a group effort, unlike other directors who tend to stroke their ego in interviews and say it was all thanks to them. Such a great artist yet also very humble even when becoming succesfull, very rare these days

[@YorgosL1]

A movie would not exist without a director. I values director more than anyone. A sound recorder is not worth acknowledging compare to a film director like are you joking ?

[@tengkuadam1399]

I like how he said that he could've made Perfect Blue more elusive. As if it wasn't already.

[@limeyfigdet7460]

It is pretty easy to follow though, when you think about it.

[@wren4077]

@@limeyfigdet7460 its easy to understand the big picture yea. But not when it comes down to specific scenes.

[@limeyfigdet7460]

@@wren4077 An analyst understands the big picture by breaking down specific scenes.

[@wren4077]

@@limeyfigdet7460 alright then you can answer some questions that I had after watching the movie Why was Me mania's eye gouged out even though Mima struck him on the head with the hammer

[@wren4077]

Also r/iamverysmart

[@jimmyhighroller5366]

The man was a genius and innovator. So sad that he died so young.

[@hiromishimada7200]

"We didnt put much though on it. It was very standard.." ugh how can that masterpiece be a standard hes such a lowkey legend

[@TheASSASSIN51]

R.I.P from Pakistan you were a true hero to the anime film industry Your works will never be forgotten Perfect Blue is my favorite movie of all time

[@nelldores]

A true genius well ahead of his time!

[@ivyx7346]

Awais Ali shah just finished perfect blue, i’m so interested in his ability to create such a masterpiece that keeps you guessing the whole time. it was so great. i didn’t know he passed. i’m going to check out his other work, he seemed like such a creative genius.

[@mov-e6612]

And I thought I was alone on this. Even the word "masterpiece" is not enough to express how good this movie is...

[@siddharthbhoyar9737]

@@mov-e6612 yes it really scares u

[@shinya3447]

12 years later today I watched the movie and I'm so glad I did

[@Kain1805]

You need to see all of his work if you haven't yet, especially Paranoia Agent and Paprika

[@Febeleh]

It's really crazy how quickly things can change. Four short years ago, someone was merely excited for another movie from this person, and now, we know we will never see another.

[@Freakazoid12345]

Ah and only 9, "short" years ago you made this comment. My, how time flies!

[@skzanarchist]

​@Freakazoid12345 11 years ago now..

[@Febeleh]

@@skzanarchist Satoshi Kon forever

[@kevlonk]

Satoshi Kon = the Kurosawa of anime. RIP, Satoshi-sama.

[@NaturalBornKilla007]

Rest in peace. Your works will never be forgotten

[@solanosantiago1687]

R.I.P. from Brazil. ;(

[@2brosand1up64]

Solano Santiago Grande mestre.

[@JamesGhodbane]

A great lost for the japanese animation a great genius and Perfect Blue was a masterpiece

[@EDI68367]

R.I.P Satoshi Kon from Mexico.

[@rellom777]

It didn’t feel like it was confusing, but towards the end I was trying to figure out what was real and what was just imagined. Beautiful film. One of the greatest psychological thriller/suspense films I’ve ever watched.

[@adam1984pl]

Stanley Kubrick of Anime.

[@jed52]

Agreed.

[@I.II..III...IIIII.....]

adam1984pl Not a good comparison at all. David Lynch or Hitchcock would be better.

[@レッド-h1i]

Terry Gilliam

[@Rik-B]

No need for comparisons, he is his own beast and he is one of the very best artists ever (and far ahead of Kubrick imo).

[@陳潔明-w6y]

@@Rik-B That's going too far...

[@adambenceracz4082]

Rest in peace, Satoshi Kon. Your work was a milestone and is still a standard for movies today. We will remember you.

[@catholiccontriversy]

Just saw perfect blue again in theaters as a fathom event. What was really cool is this was the post credits bonus feature, just properly de-interlaced and the best quality from the master tape (though it was still 4:3 magnetic tape quality). Kind of weird seeing on the big screen.

[@phlaryx7145]

catholiccontriversy I saw it in theaters too! Although I didn’t stick around to see this after the credits. Kinda wish I did now.

[@bpophantom]

I can't stop thinking about him I was just talking to my sister about his new film a week ago. And it's embarrassing when people place him as an anime director I know it's his medium but he was a great filmmaker period. I think it's kinda disrespectful to have him as the "such and such" to or of anime. He was him. And his works belong up there with masterpiece works like lain, boogiepop phantom, monster, evangelion, patlabor, flcl, summer wars etc. I'm sorry RIP.

[@KatrinaCabrera]

Rest In Peace Satoshi-Sama. Another genius has faded away from this world. It was shocking to hear that you've passed away. Thank you for everything. You will remain as one of the most remarkable directors in the anime industry, especially among us fans.

[@Hatskoi]

I love Satoshi Kons works! Ive seen from his first movie to his anime seiries Paranoia Agent, the art work in each thing he does is simply more diffrent then big eyed girls in most anime movies. I love how he keeps people guessing as well makes you think. I must say the man is a genius! x]

[@Klonoa7H]

Seeing Kon light a cigarette is pretty sad to w atch, as that contributed to his cancer. Great director, was gone before his prime.

[@SSS-ie6mh]

Cigarettes cause pancreatic cancer? Are you high?

[@THECAR99]

@@SSS-ie6mh it could who knows

[@bal_masque]

@@SSS-ie6mh well according to my research - smoking cigarettes contributes to about 25% of the cause for pancreatic cancer.

[@ErkinAdatepe]

9:36 Nobody can help you do this.You are the ultimately the only person who can truly find a place where you know you belong

[@Finarvas]

It may seem obvious when put like so but most people care a lot about what others think of them for good and bad.

[@creepyvillag3]

I love him. His works are a masterpiece. I still can't realize he passed away ... RIP Kon-sama. ç3ç

[@ReneFranco86]

anime industry will never be the same without satoshi kon, rest in peace genius.

[@jalusbrian]

"... As we've come to know from his extraordinary final letter, Satoshi Kon was a man of grace as well as genius, and of the money his films made, he graciously said that they got what they deserved. But I don't have Kon-sensei's grace, and in sadness and anger I say, no, they did not get nearly what they deserved."

[@JosephDutra]

RIP Satoshi Kon. Truly a Legend and the GOAT!!

[@adambenceracz4082]

It's so sad that when the video was uploaded he was still alive, and the fact that i'm watching it knowing that the same man on the video died two years later.. Just depresses me.

[@vikt1m1337]

He left all of the movie scripts and story to the rest he was working with and is still under work so hopefully it will come out soon :D

[@captionx]

an exellent director and writer, he did a great job with paprika, i´m expecting his next movie...

[@siddharthbhoyar9737]

hi

[@M3talD3vilG3ar]

R.I.P. from Italy :( :(

[@samuraijosh1595]

How are you now.?

[@josephtafur]

RIP this man is a legend

[@TheGreatDetectiveKnows]

I loved perfect blue x

[@ethenwinters3600]

This man such a GENIUS !

[@MarioEpstein]

Gone way way waaaayyy too soon 😭😭😭

[@TheInternetIsDeadToMe]

Your work has made this world a better place. rip

[@fynnfish]

Satoshi Kon, I've already cried all evening long. I will miss you so much. Rest in peace.

[@onioni5002]

Perfect blue and director's Satoshi purchase of the interviewer's criticism was a shocking surprise as a Manga fan Mr Kon's reaction should be for the rerelease of the original Movie Set.

[@ethenwinters3600]

This man such a GENIUS

[@hpmendes]

he is a genius

[@mcrr]

R.I.P from Australia

[@limeyfigdet7460]

It's interesting to see all of the in depth reviews and analysis videos for Perfect Blue. All of them go into much more detail and explanation about what the movie about and it's messages than the director himself.

[@levierwinsmith6]

RIP to a legend

[@Rokaishi]

Thanks for your hard Work , from indonesia here

[@GuulDraz]

R.I.P! I will remember you well!

[@priyadarshiashokgautam2455]

An anime movie called Dreaming Machine production was stopped due to his death . Madhouse tried to complete the film by Satoshi kon's directorial tapes but due to lack of funds they stopped the production . In 2018 , Madhouse co-founder Maruyama said that they wanted to make the film even after the lack of finances but wouldn't do so because no Japanese director could match Kon's level of ability I know this is late but R.I.P Satoshi kon . Would have loved to see more of your works

[@rak2261]

R.I.P from jupiter to the GOAT

[@Geferulf_TAS]

Genius auteur.

[@lindaole]

R.I.P. Satoshi Kon you were one of a kind and you will be missed :(

[@laurayu70]

How come all the good people die out? )': R.I.P Satoshi Kon

[@alifelesscritic]

Nolan got EVEN THE TITLE from Satoshi Kon !!

[@niteshkushwaha515]

First time I am seeing an interview, where the interviewee is smoking...liked it!

[@pekepeke0]

RIP SATOSHI KON

[@RudraMatsa]

Yes..he is a genious...no doubt about it..

[@GorbadIronclaw]

R.I.P.

[@jalusbrian]

"…in his own country, Kon couldn't count on one-twentieth the audience a Ghibli film could; not one-fiftieth, not even one-hundredth. From the perspective of a foreign critic, Kon was so neglected by Japanese audiences he hardly registered with them at all. ...

[@alifelesscritic]

"he said "INCEPTION"" lol : P

[@marco00009]

good bye satoshi. :(

[@onioni5002]

Winners are the Pune Warrior

[@watertommyz]

I just heard about this. It was funny because I was watching Paranoia Agent last night, and had a very disturbing thought about his death, and then...damn it. :'(

[@MsAKKKKKKK]

インタビュワーがなんにも考えずに来てしまった感じ 言葉で伝えられないから作品にしてるのに、「伝えたいテーマは何ですか？」なんて聞くなって

[@eldelnacho]

Rest in peace from chile

[@cypresspuz]

RIP Kon-Sama... T^T

[@clusterbombcocks]

R.I.P

[@taku3593]

やせてるなぁ～

[@jaegerbawmb687]

What a boss

[@vangohs]

Genius

[@襖-l9g]

僕はこの映画をみて、魚をかいたくなりました。

[@alifelesscritic]

06:55 a HELLO to nolan and aronofsky - from beyond the grave !!

[@yuk4429]

genius

[@يحيىوائلثجيل]

Fukin legend

[@Khultan]

Cause of death: pancreatic cancer. Rest in peace, man.

[@whiteCadence]

Captionx, read your comment made me cry.

[@erwinfathur724]

13 years ago ....

[@thumbnailed]

your comment make me cry... you know the reason why...

[@josepadilla2708]

Master

[@gosialeksander1618]

"Perfect blue" is a great film, loved it, but this interview is so mundane and doesn't actually tell much about the film-making process.

[@Annina11ful]

RIP sensei!! ç_ç

[@alimanslayer]

reading your comment makes me so sad, now he's you know... :(

[@amronjane05]

satoshi kon T.T

[@ガル子]

質問に対するリアクションをしないまま矢継ぎ早に質問するの失礼だろ。心なしか監督も他の動画と比べていら立っているように見える

[@dantecrottogini529]

the one thing i don't undestand is, how did she get thos blood stained clothes? or were those part of her imagination?

[@ResidentTitan]

Thse clothes were *real*. I belive it was Rumi as the "imaginary Mima" who bought them in Harajuku. She put them in the real Mima's bedroom. She was constantly rearranging things in Mima's room so that's why it was in her closet. (Watched the movie twice yesterday and read a bunch of explanations this morning).

[@rainraihan9681]

But what about the pictures on Mima's room of Mima with the bag and clothes and Mima recognizing herself in those pictures?

[@Corranhorn122]

Edit: Finally found the scene where she buys the clothes, right after she breaks the tea cup. As I suspected, we don't actually see the pizza delivery clothes inside the bag. So there is no solid proof that she bought those clothes, merely that she bought *some* clothes that went in that bag. Either Mima or Rumi could have easily taken whatever was in that bag out. With all of this said, especially considering that Mima states that she doesnt' even remember going shopping, it's entirely possible that she could have bought pizza delivery clothes. We just don't know for sure, either way. But it's enough to carry on with what I originally said, below: So to start out, I definitely believe the clothes were real as well. It's just a matter of how they got there. Can you point out where in the movie we see the picture of her purchasing those clothes? Are we sure they are pizza delivery guy clothes? Or do we just see the bag? Depending on what you say with regards to that, at a high level, I can imagine this scenario: Mima buys clothes which she puts in that bag. Which clothes? Unknown atm. Rumi sees the nude photoshoot and decides to kill the photographer. by dressing as a pizza guy. Days pass before the police find his body. In the meantime, Rumi has time to put the murder clothes into the bag in the close, easily finding time to visit and leave before Mima chains her door for the night. Mima has a dream where she expresses her suppressed rage for the photographer by dreaming about killing him. What the viewer actually sees is neither her dream nor the actual murder, but a mix of the two, but leaning towards the real murder. It can't be 100% the actual murder, though, since he is watching Double Bind on his tv, which isn't released until later in the film. She wakes up and hears about the murder. After shuffling over to her closet, she is in shock to see the bag, not because it contains pizza delivery clothes in particular, but because she just had a dream about killing the photographer, and now she finds bloody clothes in her closet. It still begs a few questions, though. If Mima actually did go out any buy "pizza guy" clothes, wouldn't the people with her stop and ask her why she was buying such strange clothes out of the blue? I guess that would go the same for if Rumi was buying them, although I feel like Mima has a greater chance of being surrounded by people all the time while out, than Rumi. Secondly, isn't it a bit convenient that Mima happens to dream about murdering the photographer just before news about it gets out? And thirdly, why, when Mima is about to act the fake murder scene a bit after the news gets out, does she have such a vivid image of the photographer with his eyes gouged out? Was the information readily available via news that he had had them gouged out? If the answer is no, then we can know for sure that she murdered him. But I don't think it's ever made clear exactly how much detail about any of the murders is let out and seen by her. Even if she did know about the general circumstances of his death, though, even with her being insane at this point, would it be enough for her to conjure up such a vivid image of his dead corpse? Maybe you guys have thoughts about this, and I would love to hear them. To summarize, I certainly want to believe that, at best, Mima was innocent of all murder, but at minimum that it is ambiguous. I'm honestly leaning more towards her having committed at least the one murder, though, sadly. Yet there are still enough unanswered questions (in my mind, anyway), that it's plausible there is a less straightforward answer for who did the murdering and why she has bloody clothes in her closet, than that she simply murdered him, put the clothes in the closet, and then dreamed about it, finding the clothes again after she woke up. For me, the real issue therefore isn't how the clothes got there. It could be explained either by Mima doing the murder or Rumi. So the real questions are: Why did Mima happen to dream about a very specific kind of murder (eye gouging and repeated stabbing) just before news came out about the real murder, with the same murder method? And why did Mima later have such a specific vivid image of his murdered corpse? Take note that the fake "corpse" doesn't have any indication of a representation of eye gouging, merely multiple stabbings. One thought about the specificity of the eye gouging. To expand on what I said earlier: At one point, we know she learns about the manager's death in the elevator. We don't know how much detail is given. But we do learn, later on, that she hears on the news that the photographer's death was of a similar nature. So *if* she learned about the eye gouging from the first case, she could have inferred that it's what happened to the photographer. But even with that *abstract* knowledge, would that be enough for her imagination to run wild and hallucinate an eye-gouged photographer in place of the fake corpse? Or are the details much to specific to be coincidence? It once again brings me to question exactly how much of the pizza murder scene was "real". Did she imagine being a pizza person? Or, since she already knew from reading her movie's script that there was going to be a screwdriver scene, did she dream about killing him that way? I'd like to point out that there is a certain symbolism in gouging out the eyes of a photographer who did wrong against her by photographing her. I would also like to point out that the weapon used in the dream/hallucination murder is the same used in the fake acting scene. Coincidence? No. Meaning? I'm not sure, yet. Why would Rumi want to go through the trouble of making Mima feel like she was the murderer, by the way? I think that's another really important question. For most of the movie, she clearly shows love and support for Mima. Yet by the end, she feels it is necessary to kill (real) Mima in order to make way for her "real" Mima. Where, in between all of this, would Rumi feel it's a good idea to gaslight Mima? One last question, while I'm thinking of this. Just before the fake murder scene, Mima asks herself if she is really still alive or if things are a dream. She talks about being hit by a truck. *what* truck? Was there some incident where she was almost hit by a truck before this moment? The only near-hit incident that clearly comes to my mind is when Rumi is almost hit by a truck near the end of the movie. If that's the only truck incident, it makes me wonder anew whether it really *is* Mima imagining/remembering the dead corpse, though. What do you think?

[@keeshand]

@@Corranhorn122 theres one scene where mima was apparently hit by a truck before she woke up. i believe the cham mima illusion(?) led her from the recording studio where cham was recording the podcast to the main road downstairs, which she ran into and was hit by creepy stalker guy driving a truck.

[@keeshand]

@@Corranhorn122 although i might have remembered it wrongly, but there clearly *is* a scene where mima was hit by creepy stalker guy driving a truck.

[@Arctica88]

i know i'm so out of place but... he's HOT!

[@TimothyTakemoto]

6:12　の　「もともと絵描きなんで、どうしても、日本語でものを考える？？にね、やっぱり絵で考えているところがあるかな」の「？？」のところは何ですか？

[@night_records]

「もともと絵描きなんで、どうしても、日本語でものを考えるようにね、こういうのでもやっぱり絵で考えているところがあるんじゃないかな」ですね

[@TimothyTakemoto]

***** ありがとうございます。日本で考えると、絵で考えるが、つながっているようです。 日本語は漢字があるかな。

[@EwwWTFLOL]

That won't happen :'(

[@MartyrLoserKing]

6:55 he flips off the interviewer

[@ilovepanslabyrinth]

Anyone know how to write his name is japanese?

[@SSS-ie6mh]

0:49 "I worked on this film from it's inception" Years later Christopher Nolan ripped off Satoshi Kon's Paprika to make Inception.

[@beflygelt]

I think it just be said that the film is 80min long

[@rushaholic]

Where was this from, was it on a dvd or bluray release?

[@Beastector.321]

rushaholic DVD release

[@Khultan]

Dead at 46?!?

[@Kiraboshi128]

What is the source of this interview?

[@Lubnadraws]

The interviewer questions feels like insults

[@foggypebble5159]

The only thing that I'm still confused about is, are Mima and Rumi the same person?

[@xmalz27]

Foggy Pebble No, they're not. Mima is the actress while Rumi is her manager.

[@TimothyTakemoto]

I thought so, although it was not made explicit.

[@assianeu197]

The interviewer is overwhelmed or something? The question he ask are all very shallow like he doesn't know how to interact with an introvert genius. I mean I probably wouldn't either, but really this is all we have from Satoshi Koa and it's a failed interview with no depth.

[@MEGADETHTHRETH]

HAHA Mr. miyagi's son.

[@coolitstony]

...they haven't confirmed his death?

[@ethenwinters3600]

Fkfjfjf

[@billy1998vn]

god?

[@ethenwinters3600]

This man such a GENIUS !

[@brandongacer1850]

Genius