New version to screen in U.S. on October 3<\/p>\n
GKIDS<\/a> unveiled a new 4K trailer on Wednesday for its upcoming screening<\/a> of the restored version of Satoshi Kon<\/a>‘s Perfect Blue<\/a> film in the United States on October 3. <\/p>\n \n The 1997 Perfect Blue feature film was the directorial feature debut for Satoshi Kon, who went on to make Millennium Actress<\/a>, Tokyo Godfathers<\/a>, Paranoia Agent<\/a> and Paprika<\/a> before his death<\/a> in 2010. Set in contemporary Tokyo, the story concerns a pop singer, Mima, who tries to develop an acting career, only to experience threats and traumas as her mind breaks down and she is tormented by a ghostly version of her singer self. Manga Entertainment<\/a> released the film on VHS and DVD. GKIDS and Shout! Factory<\/a> released<\/a> the film on Blu-ray Disc and DVD in March 2019, and released it again in a steelbook edition in September 2021.<\/p>\n GKIDS and Fathom Events<\/a> screened<\/a> the film in 500 U.S. theaters for two days in September 2018. The screenings earned<\/a> US$420,881 at the box office. GKIDS, Iconic Events Releasing, and Anime Expo<\/a> screened<\/a> the film as part of Anime Expo’s AX Cinema Nights screenings in September 2023 to celebrate the film’s 25th anniversary.<\/p>\n Kon based<\/a> his Perfect Blue anime film on Yoshikazu Takeuchi<\/a>‘s Perfect Blue: Complete Metamorphosis<\/a> novel, which Seven Seas Entertainment<\/a> shipped in February 2018. Seven Seas also shipped Takeuchi’s second Perfect Blue novel, Perfect Blue: Awaken from a Dream<\/a>, in April 2018.<\/p>\n Solurce: GKIDS’ YouTube<\/a> channel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New version to screen in U.S. on October 3 GKIDS unveiled a new 4K trailer on Wednesday for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-14678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}