Perfume’s “Cold Sleep” “コールドスリープ” Documentary

Perfume, iconic for blending electronic-dance music with precise choreography, high-tech live performances, and futuristic fashion, has a documentary set for release May 15.

It centres on the group’s last live arena performance before their public announcement to take a “cryosleep” hiatus from it all, at a defining crossroads in their career:

Perfume announced in an official statement last September 2025 that in 2026, they would take a temporary break to concentrate on their personal lives:

The center of all Perfume activities lies in our live shows.

We have given out everything to share that time and place together and resonate with you. Every show, we went up on stage thinking this might be the last time the miracle happened and ignited our hearts.

Time spent with you means the world to us.

“Marking our shining legacy in history”. This has always been one of Perfume’s dreams.

To capture this moment that we can proudly call a “shining legacy”, we have decided to put Perfume to cryosleep starting 2026.

No matter what shape or form, as the three of us, we will forever be Perfume.
To spend many more years together, to become better and more sophisticated Perfume, to face new challenges, we have decided to pause our milestone.

We have continued to improve and polish ourselves every day for the past 25 years so we are always ready to go as Perfume and this break will be the time that we, for the first time, will face our lives as individuals to find the new us. We have never experienced a time like this, nor have we never even thought about something like this so we will probably start with rehab. LOL But the three of us all agreed that we are ready to face that challenge.

Many beautiful landscapes we created together will continue to push us forward and if we ever feel down, we’re sure that they will keep shining upon us. We appreciate every one of you who has supported us thus far, from the bottom of our hearts.

Since we came this far without taking a break as Perfume, we hope you support our decision to give ourselves little break time. Please continue to lend us your support as we chase our new dreams.

We are doing all this just to come back as “new Perfume.” We all want to be more powerful than ever so we would be delighted if you could kindly look forward to that day when we meet again.