IDENTITY IS AN OPTICAL ILLUSION.

At-home premiere: Experience the brand-new 4K restoration, exclusively on Letterboxd Video Store.

Rising pop idol Mima Kirigoe makes a bold and controversial transition into acting, trading her clean-cut image for a role in a gritty detective drama. But as her handlers and collaborators begin turning up murdered, the line between her public persona and private self begins to blur. Haunted by visions and stalked by an obsessed fan, Mima’s reality and fantasy spiral into a frenzied paranoia that threatens to consume her.

Satoshi Kon’s legendary directorial debut—a pioneering work of psychological horror as influential as it was visionary—returns in a stunning new 4K restoration that captures every haunting detail of this prescient vision of fame, obsession, and one’s digital self.

For years, industry rumors suggested the original 35mm camera negative was lost or destroyed. This 4K restoration is something of a cinematic miracle, sourced from the best surviving elements to deliver a clarity and color grade previously thought impossible.

Languages: in Japanese or English. English subtitles available.