Casual Person

Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky mistake picture

Continuity mistake: The warden attempts to trap Ricky by pushing a table at him. On the table there is a tray filled with meat from when the warden forced an inmate's arm into a meat grinder earlier in the scene. In the shot where he first pushes the table, the meat in the tray is towards the right hand corner of the tray. Ricky then jumps over the table and the meat is now towards the left hand side. (01:26:27)

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Continuity mistake: When Hodaka first fires his gun whilst being threatened by the man, the shell casing lands on the ground beside him, right next to his head. A couple seconds later, when Hina goes to help him up so they can run off together, the shell casing has vanished from the ground. (00:22:06)

Casual Person

17th Oct 2020

Perfect Blue (1997)

Continuity mistake: On the detective show, in the scene where the forensics team member is taking photos of the dead body, there is a close-up shot of the man taking the photos and there is a Nikon logo shown on the front of the camera. It then cuts to a different angle where the Nikon logo has disappeared. (00:22:51)

Casual Person

17th Oct 2020

Perfect Blue (1997)

Continuity mistake: Mima is watching Rumi set up her new computer. In the reflection of the monitor, we can see a calendar on the wall behind him. The first number on the bottom row of calendar is 26 in the reflection. A minute later, when Rumi asks "what are you going to do with a clip", we can see the calendar in the background and it is now the number 27 shown to be the first number on the bottom row. The number 27 also changes colour from black to red in between the two shots. (00:19:02 - 00:20:12)

Casual Person

17th Oct 2020

Perfect Blue (1997)

Continuity mistake: The producer takes a letter from a handful of fan letters. Shown on the front of the envelope are a label with name and address details and a stamp. In the next shot, the label with the name and address details and the stamp have disappeared from the envelope. (00:16:55)

Casual Person

17th Oct 2020

Perfect Blue (1997)

Continuity mistake: When Rumi opens up the script to see what line Mima is going to deliver on camera, nothing can be seen on the page she is shown reading. It then cuts to a close-up of the page and a small bookmark has suddenly appeared on the page. (00:15:27)

Casual Person

17th Oct 2020

Perfect Blue (1997)

Continuity mistake: When Mima gets another call whilst in the middle of a call with her mother, she says "Hello" after taking the call. In one shot, her fingers are positioned around the phone towards the middle, but in the next shot, her fingers are nearer, towards the bottom of the phone. (00:12:15)

Casual Person

17th Oct 2020

Perfect Blue (1997)

Continuity mistake: When Mima is on the phone with her mother, just after she says "No more singing", she is smiling, but in the next shot, she is suddenly not. (00:11:41)

Casual Person

17th Oct 2020

Perfect Blue (1997)

Continuity mistake: When Mima is putting away the posters of her and her band mates, in the shot where she puts the rolled up posters in a bag, the poster on the right is shown to have a bow wrapped around it. (00:10:42)

Casual Person

17th Oct 2020

Perfect Blue (1997)

Continuity mistake: When Mima is in her apartment for the first time, there is a shot of her placing three letters on a table, on top of each other. The letter on the bottom has a pink envelope, the letter in the middle has a white envelope and the letter on top has a blue envelope. In a wide shot of the room a few seconds later, the envelopes have changed order. The blue envelope is now on the bottom, the pink envelope is now in the middle and the white envelope is now on top. (00:09:47)

Casual Person

17th Oct 2020

Perfect Blue (1997)

Continuity mistake: When the guy at the concert is trying to sell the three remaining magazines, in the close-up shot of the magazines, he is holding them by the top of the page. But in the next shot, he is suddenly holding them by the bottom of the page. (00:01:20)

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Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky mistake picture

Continuity mistake: When the warden is kicked across the kitchen by Ricky, he lands on a sink. On the floor beneath the kitchen sink, a couple of tiles that were stuck to the wall fall off it. We are then shown a closer shot of the same area, where the tiles that just fell off the wall are now back on the wall, and two entirely different tiles have now fallen off. (01:26:31)

Casual Person

Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky mistake picture

Continuity mistake: When Ricky begins to charge towards the wall to punch it down, his right fist is shown to have blood on it. When the camera cuts to angle behind Ricky, the blood on his right fist has suddenly disappeared. (01:29:55)

Casual Person

Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky mistake picture

Continuity mistake: When Ricky is trying to force the warden's body into the meat grinder, as Ricky begins pushing his head down, the warden is positioned directly in front of Ricky. When the camera changes angles, the warden has suddenly rotated by 90°. The camera changes angles again and the warden is suddenly facing Ricky directly, then in the next shot, the warden has suddenly rotated 90° again. (01:28:53)

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Continuity mistake: When the warden is thrown across the kitchen and into the meat grinder by Ricky, in one shot, he is shown being thrown across the room from left to right. When he lands in the meat grinder in the next shot, he is suddenly falling downwards. (01:28:37)

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Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky mistake picture

Continuity mistake: When Ricky is sitting on the ground after being thrown to the ground by the warden, whilst the warden is telling him they've got the same kung fu style, Ricky has both his arms placed firmly on the ground. The camera changes angles and suddenly, his left arm is raised off the ground. (01:28:05)

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Continuity mistake: In the final fight scene, there is a moment where Ricky punches straight through the warden's stomach and punches out through the other side. The shot then cuts to the warden for a second, but when the shot cuts again, Ricky's arm has suddenly been completely removed from the warden's stomach. No way could Ricky have removed his entire arm from the warden's stomach that quickly. (01:27:33)

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Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky mistake picture

Continuity mistake: Just after the warden has one of the guard take his son away, he and Ricky prepare to fight. At this point, Ricky has no blood shown around his mouth. But later in the scene, when the warden becomes muscular, there is suddenly some blood around his mouth that wasn't there earlier. (01:26:20 - 01:27:14)

Casual Person

Continuity mistake: When the warden begins changing into a more muscular version of himself, in one shot, he is shown with his head pointed downwards and with his eyes closed, but in the next shot, he is suddenly standing upright, with his eyes open. (01:26:37)

Casual Person

Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky mistake picture

Continuity mistake: When the warden is kicked across the kitchen by Ricky, in the shot where he lands on a sink, there are two circular smudge marks on the wall beside him. It then cuts to a closer shot of the warden and the two smudge marks have gone. (01:26:31)

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