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Blue Bird (ブルーバード) (Ikimonogakari song)

Blue Bird (ブルーバード), Ikimonogakari's 10th single released July 9, 2008 on Epic Records Japan; written by Yoshiki Mizuno, third Naruto Shippuden opening (episodes 54–77), Oricon weekly No. 3, RIAJ million Chaku-Uta Full certification in 2011.

Blue Birthday (블루버스데이)

Blue Birthday (블루버스데이) is a 2021 South Korean Playlist web drama on Naver TV, 16 episodes, starring Red Velvet's Yeri and PENTAGON's Hongseok; Ha-rin burns her dead first love's photos to time-travel and finds his suicide was murder. Remade in Japan in 2023.

Blue Bloods season 14

Blue Bloods season 14 is the two-part final season of the CBS police procedural, airing February 16 to December 13, 2024 across 18 episodes, ending with "End of Tour" and leading to the spinoff Boston Blue.

Blue Box (ブルーボックス) (manga)

Blue Box (アオのハコ, Ao no Hako) is a sports-romance manga by Kouji Miura serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump from April 2021 to 13 July 2026, 250 chapters and 28 volumes, following badminton player Taiki Inomata and basketball player Chinatsu Kano, adapted by Telecom Animation Film from 2024.

Blue Cat

Blue Cat (Aoneko, 青猫) is a 1923 poetry collection by the Japanese poet Sakutarō Hagiwara, gathering 55 poems from 1917 to 1922 and marking the establishment of colloquial free verse in modern Japanese poetry.

Blue Cat Blues

Blue Cat Blues (1956) is the 103rd Tom and Jerry short by Hanna and Barbera, in which Jerry narrates Tom's decline after losing a female cat to the rich Butch, ending with both on railroad tracks; rarely aired on Cartoon Network due to suicide themes.

Blue Cheer

Blue Cheer: San Francisco power trio (Dickie Peterson, Leigh Stephens, Paul Whaley) formed 1966, named after Owsley LSD. Debut Vincebus Eruptum (1968, Billboard #11) and hit cover Summertime Blues made them proto-heavy metal pioneers; ended with Peterson's 2009 death.

Blue Christmas (song)

Blue Christmas, a 1948 Christmas song by Billy Hayes and Jay W. Johnson, first recorded by Doye O'Dell, a country staple via Ernest Tubb, and best known from Elvis Presley's 1957 recording.

Blue Collar Comedy Tour

Blue Collar Comedy Tour: 2000–2006 American package tour starring Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Engvall, Ron White, and Larry the Cable Guy; redneck-themed stand-up that grossed over $16.6 million and spawned three films and Blue Collar TV.

Blue Crush

Blue Crush is a 2002 American sports drama film directed by John Stockwell and starring Kate Bosworth, Michelle Rodriguez, and Sanoe Lake as surfers on Oahu's North Shore.

Blue Devils Drum and Bugle Corps

Blue Devils Drum and Bugle Corps, Concord, California World Class junior drum corps founded 1957 by Ann and Tony Odello; record 21 DCI World Championships (1976–2023), 99.650 record score in 2014, 2026 runner-up at 97.500.

Blue Exorcist (青の祓魔師)

Blue Exorcist (青の祓魔師) is Kazue Kato's ongoing shonen manga serialized in Shueisha's Jump Square since April 2009, following Satan's son Rin Okumura training as an exorcist at True Cross Academy; over 25 million copies in print, with a 2011 A-1 Pictures TV anime, a 2012 film, Kyoto Saga (2017), and 2024 seasons.

Blue Eye Samurai

Blue Eye Samurai is a Netflix adult animated action series by Michael Green and Amber Noizumi about Mizu, a mixed-race onna-musha seeking revenge in Edo-period Japan; Emmy-winning, animated by Blue Spirit, season 2 in January 2027.

Blue Film (2025 film)

Blue Film (2025) is Elliot Tuttle's debut queer drama thriller, also called a chamber two-hander. Camboy Aaron Eagle (Kieron Moore) takes $50,000 from masked client Hank Grant (Reed Birney), his former teacher and a convicted pedophile; premiered at Edinburgh 2025, US release May 2026.

Blue Film (album)

Blue Film (album): the 2014 debut album by Lo-Fang (Matthew Hemerlein) on 4AD, 12 tracks, 42 minutes; also albums of the same name by The Tissues (2020) and DALIAN (2003).

Blue Film Woman

Blue Film Woman (Buru firumu no onna) is a 1969 Japanese pink film directed by Kan Mukai, one of the first pink films shot in color.

Blue Gate Crossing

Blue Gate Crossing (藍色大門) is a 2002 Taiwanese coming-of-age drama by Yee Chih-yen, starring Gwei Lun-mei and Chen Bo-lin, screened at Cannes Directors' Fortnight and credited with launching Taiwan's xiaoqingxin youth-film wave.

Blue Gender

Blue Gender (ブルージェンダー) is a 1999-2000 AIC/Toshiba EMI 26-episode sci-fi horror TV anime directed by Masashi Abe; cryo-sleeper Yuji Kaido awakens in 2031 to an Earth overrun by the Blue insects, distinct from the unrelated Blue Giant manga.

Blue Giant (BLUE GIANT) (2023 film)

Blue Giant (BLUE GIANT) is a 2023 Japanese anime film directed by Yuzuru Tachikawa, adapted from Shinichi Ishizuka's jazz manga, following saxophonist Dai Miyamoto and the trio JASS in Tokyo, with music by Hiromi Uehara, released February 17, 2023.

Blue Harvest

Blue Harvest is the hour-long Family Guy season 6 premiere (September 23, 2007) parodying Star Wars: A New Hope, with Peter as Han Solo, Stewie as Darth Vader, and Chris as Luke; its title borrows the Return of the Jedi codename, and it launched the Laugh It Up, Fuzzball trilogy.

Blue Hawaii

Blue Hawaii (1961) is an Elvis Presley Paramount musical directed by Norman Taurog, his eighth film, shot in Hawaii; its soundtrack, with "Can't Help Falling in Love", spent 20 weeks at number one.

Blue Heelers

Blue Heelers is an Australian police drama series that ran on the Seven Network from 1994 to 2006, following officers at the Mount Thomas police station.

Blue Heron (film)

Blue Heron is a 2025 Canada-Hungary drama, the feature debut of Sophy Romvari, about a Hungarian immigrant family on Vancouver Island destabilized by son Jeremy; Locarno Swatch First Feature Award winner, 97% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Blue Horns

The Blue Horns (Georgian: Tsisperqantselebi) were a group of Georgian symbolist poets founded in Kutaisi in 1915, led by Paolo Iashvili, the first symbolist group in Georgian literature.

Blue Horses

Blue Horses (Georgian: Lurja Tskhenebi) is a symbolist poem by the Georgian poet Galaktion Tabidze, written in 1915 and published in 1916 in the journal Tsisperi Qantsebi.

Blue Is the Warmest Colour

Blue Is the Warmest Colour (La Vie d'Adèle – Chapitres 1 & 2), 2013 French drama by Abdellatif Kechiche adapted from Julie Maroh's graphic novel; won the 2013 Palme d'Or shared with actresses Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux, amid controversy over its sex scenes and set conditions.

Blue Island (album)

Blue Island is Ravyn Lenae's third studio album, released August 7, 2026 on Atlantic. Named for her Illinois hometown, the 14-track Dahi-produced record spans pop, R&B, and rock, scoring 73 on Metacritic.

Blue Ivy Carter

Blue Ivy Carter (born 2012), daughter of Beyoncé and Jay-Z, is an American singer, dancer, and voice actor; youngest BET Award winner (2020), Grammy winner for "Brown Skin Girl" (2021), and dancer on the Renaissance and Cowboy Carter tours.

Blue Jasmine

Blue Jasmine (2013) is Woody Allen's drama starring Cate Blanchett as a fallen New York socialite living with her sister Ginger (Sally Hawkins) in San Francisco; it parallels A Streetcar Named Desire and the Madoff scandal, and won Blanchett the 2014 Best Actress Oscar.

Blue Jay (film)

Blue Jay (2016) is a black-and-white romantic drama directed by Alex Lehmann, written by and starring Mark Duplass with Sarah Paulson, about reunited high school sweethearts; first Duplass brothers Netflix film, premiered at TIFF 2016. Not the 2016 Michael Ciulla thriller of the same name.