It would be hard to find a list of the best anime films of all time that doesn't include 1988's Akira, 1995's Ghost in the Shell, 1997's Perfect Blue and 2001's Spirited Away. As the film with the narrowest audience of them all, in terms of production profile (planned for videotape distribution), audience (adults only) and subject matter (the phenomenon of Japanese female pop singers), Perfect Blue was a huge hit in the West. Following the tradition started by debutant director Satoshi Kon, we will not look for a Lithuanian equivalent for its title, but will keep the original title, which it inherited from the novel of the same name by Yoshikazu Takeuchi. A novel which, as he later admitted, he had never read, but he liked the title, so he kept it that way. The title of the film has not been prefixed. In the English edition of the novel, it was translated as "total metamorphosis", but in Japan it has been known since its publication as "total perversion". The latter is a much more straightforward description of the plot of both the novel and the film. It is a psychological thriller about a pop singer, Mima, who decides to change her career, and the disillusioned fan who begins to pursue her, calling himself Me-Mania. He can't accept the new image of his goddess, but Mima is no better off, as she begins to doubt herself.  Perhaps Perfect Blue's most famous fan, director Darren Aronofsky later even acquired the rights to remake it, only to reprise one of its scenes in his film Requiem for a Dream, and then, years later, to make his own similarly themed masterpiece, Black Swan. Directed by Satoshi Kon (Millennium Actress, Tokyo Godfathers, Paprika) Starring Junko Iwao, Rica Matsumoto, Shiho Niiyama, Masaaki Okura, Shinpachi Tsuji, Emiko Furukawa