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Stalking
Mima is the victim of persistent stalking throughout the film. The stalkers harass her, impersonate her online, show up at her workplace, send unsolicited messages and phone calls to her, cause grievous bodily harm to those around her, murder her associates, and attempt to harm her several times. This culminates in an attempted rape that she ultimately fends off.
Rape
Though Mima is not physically raped, there are two incidents of sexual assault which deeply traumatize her: a simulated rape carried out as a scene in the fictional television show she is cast in, in which she plays a sex worker who is raped on stage at the strip club she works at, and when she is sexually assaulted by her stalker.
Assault
Mima is chased down, stabbed, beaten, and sexually assaulted throughout the last act of the film.
Self-harm
Doubting her own reality, Mima intentionally crushes a teacup in her hands in an act of self-harm.
Psychosis
Mima begins to experience vivid hallucinations, paranoia, and memory problems throughout the film as her mental health degrades. This causes her to doubt her own identity and reality.
Murder
Several murders are associated with Mima throughout the film. Though she is depicted committing two, I play under the assumption that her stalker is the only person she actually killed in reality, in self-defense.
Gaslighting
Mima is heavily manipulated and gaslit by both her manager and agent throughout the film. She is isolated, manipulated into exploiting herself sexually in service of her career, and out of getting help from the police. She is also gaslit into believing she committed one of the murders of her associates.
Kirigoe Mima is a successful pop idol with a reasonably large following who chooses to retire from the girl idol group CHAM! at 21 years old to pursue a career in acting. She is joined by the close support of her agent, Tadokoro, and her former manager, Hidaka Rumi, as they try to guide her in her new career. Mima commits to changing her image completely from her idol career, but in doing so, earns the ire of one particularly dedicated fan. Over time, she begins to lose sight of her reality and identity, and slowly unravels as a result.
Kirigoe Mima is a successful pop idol with a reasonably large following who chooses to retire from the girl idol group CHAM! at 21 years old to pursue a career in acting. She is joined by the close support of her agent, Tadokoro, and her former manager, Hidaka Rumi, as they try to guide her in her new career. While Tadokoro eagerly gets to work on shaping a controversial and provocative new image for Mima to separate her from her former life as an idol, Rumi expresses concern and reluctance at the changes he proposes and resists them.
In retiring, however, Mima unwittingly upsets some of her fans, including someone maintaining an extensively detailed online diary impersonating her, and an obsessive stalker, who begins to harass her with threatening letters, phone calls, and by showing up on the set of her first job, a role on a crime thriller called Double Bind. A letter bomb which maims Tadokoro is received on Mima's first day of shooting.
Eventually, Tadokoro is successful in lobbying the creators of Double Bind to give Mima a reoccurring and more robust role, though this comes with an upsetting trade-off; Mima's character becomes a stripper and is raped at her club. Rumi is outraged, but Mima agrees and performs the scene. Though she holds herself together and remains professional during filming, the filming is grueling and traumatizing. She suffers a breakdown shortly after participating.
Soon after this event, the people who have contributed most to Mima's new career are murdered one by one. The writer behind Double Bind, Shibuya, is found murdered in the elevator of a parking garage, and Murano, a photographer who manipulates Mima into a pornographic photoshoot. Both are found stabbed to death, their eyes gouged out.
As Mima gives more and more of herself to her career and lets herself be consumed for entertainment, her own grip on her reality begins to slip - an apparition of her past in idol begins to torment her, the fiction of Double Bind begins to weave its way seamlessly into her life and memory, and she begins to doubt her own memory and identity as her real life begins to merge with the life of her fictional counterpart, traumatized serial killer Takakura Yoko. All the while, she continues to check the fictional Mima's Room diary and reads it obsessively. Me-Mania, her stalker, also comes into contact with the person behind the Mima's Room website, and becomes convinced that they are the true Mima.
On the last day of filming for Double Bind, Me-Mania reveals himself and savagely assaults her on the Double Bind set. Me-Mania claims that he killed the photographer and writer under orders from the real Kirigoe Mima, and seeks to kill her to free her from Mima's perceived tarnishing of the "real" Mima. He attempts to rape her at knifepoint, but is resisted and eventually killed by Mima with a hammer.
Rumi finds Mima in tatters and recovers her from Double Bind's set, and takes her back to "Mima's room." Rather than taking her back to her apartment, however, Rumi takes her to an exhaustive recreation of her room, with every detail painstakingly replicated. Rumi is then revealed as the one giving Me-Mania his instructions, as well as the person behind the Mima's Room website.
Rumi, a failed idol herself, has become convinced that she is Mima after living vicariously through her idol career. She is now so deep into her psychosis that she is convinced that the only way to preserve Mima's pure image and reputation is to take her agency forever by killing her. Mima is stabbed and attacked as she flees across Tokyo before finally solidifying her own reality and identity and shattering the illusory Mima by taking Rumi's wig and throwing it behind a broken window, causing her to impale herself on broken glass retrieving it.
Mima is shown later visiting Rumi at a psychiatric facility, where she has been incarcerated for treatment. She is successful, independent, mature, and is shown to finally be confident in her sense of self.
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