It was a 1997 film by Satoshi Kon about a pop star who transitions from a pop girl group into acting. The movie was from 1987 and explores themes of stalking, distorted reality, and the internet's impact on identity.
Satoshi Kon.
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It was a 1997 film by Satoshi Kon about a pop star who transitions from a pop girl group into acting. The movie was from 1987 and explores themes of stalking, distorted reality, and the internet's impact on identity.
Satoshi Kon.
Did you ever watch Paprika? That anime film or Tokyo Godfathers or Millennium Actress?
Okay so she was at the time a contemporary of like a Miyazaki kind of. People were kind of putting them in the same camp. But his first movie is about this pop star who transitions out of a pop girl group in 1997. This movie comes out in 1987 but then she transitions into acting and then her stalker gets mad and then she finds this like blog that's written in her voice. But it's not her who's writing it but for some reason it knows all these details about her. There's all these twists like her manager is a little bit suspicious and then it's about how like the internet is distorting her reality and like she's believing what the internet version of herself is like being fed to her. It's like really fascinating.
Like it's about all these things but like I watch it as a reminder that like whatever's going on in here is like not real.
The director Satoshi Kon was like I don't know why it's called that but I'll make it. Yeah I didn't know why it was called that either.