Rising pop star Mima has quit singing to pursue acting, but her fans aren't ready to see her go. When her handlers and collaborators begin turning up murdered, reality and fantasy meld into a frenzied paranoia.

As her stalker closes in — in person and online — the threat is more real than even Mima knows. Satoshi Kon's debut feature invented a visual grammar for the dissolving self that filmmakers are still borrowing from, Aronofsky and Nolan included.

It is also, quietly, the most accurate film ever made about being watched on the internet. It came out the year before Google.