On this episode, Kelby and I talk Satoshi Kon's Perfect Blue (1999). Identity crises, the early internet, ambiguity, and mixtures of high and low art. At a certain point the film becomes a launchpad for our burgeoning manifesto, which places Japanese film at the center of inspiration for a way forward in our own fiction.

Buy David's new essay You Pray for Dry Weather at the Sight of the Sun in ebook or paperback here.