Kon’s transition cuts are unforgettable and brain bending, the allusions to his huge palate of cinematic influences are savvy, and his enchantment to the multiplicity of the human encounter as considerate and poignant as at any time. An avowed cinephile, the most visible influences for Kon’s perform on Perfect Blue are unmistakably that of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho and Jonathan Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs.