Perfect Blue 1997 2160p UHD Blu-ray Remux SDR HEVC TrueHD 5 1-CiNEPHiLES
Rising pop star Mima has quit singing to pursue a career as an actress and model, but her fans aren&t ready to see her go... Encouraged by her managers, Mima takes on a recurring role on a popular TV show, when suddenly 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. As her stalker closes in, in person and online, the threat he poses is more real than even Mima knows, in this iconic psychological thriller that has frequently been hailed as one of the most important animated films of all time.
Release date: Saturday 28th February 1998
Genre: Drama, Horror, Psychological, Thriller
Duration: 82 min
Perfect.Blue.1997.2160p.UHD.Blu-ray.Remux.SDR.HEVC.TrueHD.5.1-CiNEPHiLES
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SIZE............: 44.9 GiB
RUNTIME.........: 1 h 21 min
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Codec...........: HEVC, Main 10@L5.1@High
Resolution......: 3840x2160
Bit rate........: 71.6 Mb/s
Frame rate......: 23.976 FPS
Color primaries.: BT.709
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Format..........: Dolby TrueHD
Channels........: 6
Sample rate.....: 48.0 kHz
Bit rate........: 3,607 kb/s
Language........: Japanese (Surround Remix)
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Format..........: Dolby Digital
Channels........: 6
Sample rate.....: 48.0 kHz
Bit rate........: 640 kb/s
Language........: Japanese (Surround Remix / Compatibility Track)
---AUDIO (#3)----
Format..........: FLAC
Channels........: 1 channel
Sample rate.....: 44.1 kHz
Bit rate........: 328 kb/s
Language........: Japanese (Original Theatrical Mono Mix)
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Format..........: FLAC
Channels........: 2
Sample rate.....: 48.0 kHz
Bit rate........: 1,384 kb/s
Language........: Japanese (1998 Stereo Remix)
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Format..........: Dolby Digital
Channels........: 2
Sample rate.....: 48.0 kHz
Bit rate........: 192 kb/s
Language........: English (English Dub)
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Format..........: FLAC
Channels........: 2
Sample rate.....: 48.0 kHz
Bit rate........: 534 kb/s
Language........: Japanese (Commentary by director Satoshi Kon and unit director Kou Matsuo)
SUBTITLES.......: English
SUBTITLES.......: English (PGS)
SUBTITLES.......: SDH (English Dub)
SUBTITLES.......: SDH (English Dub) / PGS
SUBTITLES.......: English (Forced for the English Dub)
SUBTITLES.......: English (Forced for the English Dub / PGS)
SUBTITLES.......: Chinese (Traditional)
SUBTITLES.......: Cantonese (Hant) Cantonese (Traditional / HK)
SUBTITLES.......: Cantonese (Hant) Cantonese (Traditional / HK) / PGS
SUBTITLES.......: Catalan
SUBTITLES.......: Danish
SUBTITLES.......: Dutch
SUBTITLES.......: Finnish
SUBTITLES.......: French (FR)
SUBTITLES.......: French (FR) (PGS)
SUBTITLES.......: German
SUBTITLES.......: Norwegian
SUBTITLES.......: Spanish (ES) (Castilian)
SUBTITLES.......: Swedish
Chapters........: Named
Release Notes:
Sources:
#1: JPN UHD Blu-ray (2025) - video, 5.1 audio, subtitles (thanks TMT!)
#2: LaserDisc (1998) - original mono audio
#3: FRA Blu-ray (2017) - stereo audio, subtitles
#4: NTSC DVD (2000) - English dub
#5: JPN Blu-ray (2008) - commentary
#6: GBR Blu-ray (2013) - subtitles, named chapters
#7: GBR Blu-ray (2019) - subtitles
#8: ESP Blu-ray (2016) - subtitles
#9: GER Blu-ray (2016) - subtitles (thanks iFPD!)
#10: HKG Blu-ray (2023) - subtitles (thanks PTer!)
#11: TWN Blu-ray (2010) - subtitles
#12: MUBI WEB-DL - subtitles
#13: iTunes WEB-DL - subtitles
#14: Crunchyroll WEB-DL - subtitles
Audio:
Perfect Blue was theatrically released with a mono mix, due to budget constraints. This mix is only available on the 1998 LaserDisc release.
2013/2019 All the Anime/Shout! Factory releases include an 2.0 dual mono track (of incredibly low quality), but it's a downmix of the stereo remix.
Home video releases were upgraded with new stereo and 5.1 remixes.
Stereo mix appears to differ from the mono more than the 5.1 track, with numerous differing sound effects, cue timing and ocassional other changes. For example, background dialogue played on the car radio around 43:50 is only present in this mix. The remix is only available on LaserDisc, old Japanese DVD, and surprisingly, the French Blu-ray. UHD instead offers a 5.1 downmix.
The 5.1 mix is the same on all Blu-rays, with the LaserDisc version differing only in extra channel bleed and compression.
Quality-wise, all discs are about the same, preferred 24-bit track from UHD.
English dub, as the 5.1 included on all discs is a poor (up)mix with tonnes of bleed, with Japanese 5.1 on the NTSC DVD where the dub originates, suffering from the same issues compared to other sources.
Comparisons: Samples (LD mono vs Blu-ray "e;mono"e;), Spectrogram (5.1)
Subtitles:
English SRT subtitles from MUBI, due to proper formatting with appropriate line breaks and music notes.
English PGS subtitles from the 2013 GBR disc due to styling. Contents are the same between all options.
French web subtitles converted to SRT from ASS, as they were just plain subs without any typesetting.
Skipped subtitles from Italian Blu-ray/DVD as they have on-screen text hardcoded and missing from subtitle tracks.
