Paprika (tbc)
- Run time: 1 hour 30 mins
- Release date: 1st January 2006
- Starring: Megumi Hayashibara (voice), Akio Ohtsuka (voice), Akiko Kawase (voice)
- Directed by: Satoshi Kon
- Distributor: Sony Pictures
Plot Synopsis
Megumi Hayashibara (voice), Akio Ohtsuka (voice), Akiko Kawase (voice), Anri Katsu (voice), Daisuke Sakaguchi (voice), Eiji Miyashita (voice), Hideyuki Tanaka (voice), Katsunosuke Hori (voice), Kouichi Yamadera (voice), Kouzou Mito (voice), Kumiko Izumi (voice), Mitsuo Iwata (voice), Rikako Aikawa (voice), Satomi Koorogi (voice), Satoshi Kon (voice), Shinichirou Ohta (voice), Shinya Fukumatsu (voice), Tohru Furuya (voice), Toru Emori (voice), Yasutaka Tsutsui (voice)From the director of PERFECT BLUE and TOKYO GODFATHERS, PAPRIKA is Satoshi Kon's latest meditation on the conflict between technology and humanity.
Set in Tokyo, the DC-MINI is a gadget developed for psychotherapy that allows one to view a patient's dreams. A team of doctors has now developed a way for the user to enter into and control the dreams of others.
However, this revolutionary device has been stolen enabling the dream world to spill into the waking world thereby causing all kinds of trouble in the city. Can our heroine, Paprika, stop the 'psycho terrorists' before it's too late?
PAPRIKA is a thrilling tour-de-force of visual invention, using animation as an open-form that is not bound by any laws of photographic cinematography. Director Satoshi Kon beautifully portrays the non-logical realities of dreams without losing a sense of the narrative. He takes objects that seem friendly and comforting and turns them into nightmares – oh yes, the subconscious is scary!
Paprika plays like a head-on collision between Hello Kitty and Philip K. Dick./p>