Paprika

May. 25,2007      R
Rating:
7.7
Trailer Synopsis Cast

When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patient's dreams is stolen, all hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist can stop it and recover it before damage is done: Paprika.

Megumi Hayashibara as  Paprika / Atsuko Chiba (voice)
Tohru Emori as  Seijiro Inui (voice)
Katsunosuke Hori as  Torataro Shima (voice)
Toru Furuya as  Kosaku Tokita (voice)
Akio Otsuka as  Toshimi Konakawa (voice)
Koichi Yamadera as  Morio Osanai (voice)
Hideyuki Tanaka as  Guy (voice)
Satoshi Kon as  Jinnai (voice)
Yasutaka Tsutsui as  Kuga (voice)
Satomi Korogi as  Japanese Doll (voice)

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Reviews

FeistyUpper
2007/05/25

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

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UnowPriceless
2007/05/26

hyped garbage

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MamaGravity
2007/05/27

good back-story, and good acting

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BallWubba
2007/05/28

Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.

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Sasha Minh
2007/05/29

A whimsical and incredible man made anime.The soundtrack, graphic style, content, music perfectly matches with the theme, deliver such a whimsical feel as well as hauntingly thoughts. I have watched so many Japanese's animes and I have learned that they are good at making complicated and uncomplicated things happens at the same time. The movie is not only breaking everyone's imagination but also limits, abilities, leaving the audiences in the confusion of not knowing what's actually real.When you think about it, this plot is kind of similar to 'Inception' US movie, but with higher graphic feels and more whimsical scenes, Papurika has pushed this concept of dreams up to a new level.I'm not a really good at writing but I have forced myself to compliment something on this fascinating movie. This anime is incredibly well made and once again I want to bow myself in front of Japanese dedication..

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Johnnydark_sd
2007/05/30

Paprika (2006) is what we can call a good fusion between psychology, philosophy and animation.So, what makes Paprika be a masterpiece of cinema and Japanese animation? Of course that it is the flawless depicting of a world full of freedom, imagination and creativity, like "Dream". Similar to another masterpiece, Sandman by Neil Gaiman. Both, Kon and Gaiman, were capable of making dreams come true. To read the graphic novels of Gaiman or watch the delightful psychedelic Kon's movie, is like diving into another reality that reflects our weakness, sins and evils, but also our great qualities while human beings, as our courage to stand up before the unknown or nihilism (our lack of meaning to life).Like a real dream, we don't want to see the end of the film, 'cause the end of a dream is when we wake up to "reality". In other words, waking up is like putting an end point in a long journey through a world of dreams, and face the cruel, dry and uncolored reality. Just like has done king Oedipus when facing his misfortuned destiny (killing his father and marrying his mother, as prophesied by the clairvoyant).

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welshnew50
2007/05/31

A sublime collision of a variety of characters' necessitate-processing contextually to A virtual immersion , but limited in a almost nightmare like restriction of clashing pure imagination , crammed into a otherwise very short real-world plot ...humiliatingly contrasting role-matched characters, but of chr.s deliberately made simplistic for pride's sake , the unconscious' limits made easy to get a sense of , touch, almost , in a narrow and discard-able story , not needing either time nor expertise to fathom.Masterful , but watchable-without unrealistic understanding , connected to over-the- top (and boring) control-via technology plots , but imagination stimulating , rather than plot-familiarizing. Excellent..While more concrete , recognisability-dependent movie plot followers may well find this movie unfamiliar and obscure , or overpoweringly complex-reasons difficult to follow , many of its characters are of highly trained roles in a sci-fi scenario of complicated possibility of forces in a new or perhaps just yet-with any form of control , place of comprehension to the mind ... a tangled car crash wreck of imagination and inadequacy in a pure form as characters in a story of dream-connection , dream together in a series of collapses and envelopments of scope of only a small amount of , but observer-pervesingly satisfyingly constrictive or expansive inclusion of thought or neuronal connection-testing , as the characters struggle to both minimize damage in a already existing circumstance or precedent of the dream- technology going wrong , and simultaneously for recovery against a conglomeration of deathly thought , at times of cellular nightmarish depths and envelopment , at times only of perceived-power, immature and inexperienced (and realistic in those limitations) of inflated-overconfidence or self- dependence ... those perceiving power within the technology , monstrous and bound , those less caught up in its power more free , but daunted and only human in a variety of ways , that doesn't choke the plot with too much personal character-detail ...Balanced , although a little familiar-plot clichéd , it contrasts the actions of different people behind the veil that is lifted upon awakening from the perspective of any of the characters as they go into and out of the immersion , and demonstrates distance in shambled, jumbled, dreams magnificently , metaphors and transformative concealment of characters' limited interactions with the dream-scape so easy to miss , but also easy to associate with the deliberately different characters' roles ...Roles which in contrast to your own or absence of , easily make you think about detaching from yourself or your past , and what your own limitations would be , in this invasion of privacy in the extreme , yet still within a relatively safe real world environment , the contrast of yet-perfected technology in such desire , impossible to miss.Strengths of characters in its real world and this immersive one, are also contrasted by subconscious limitations , as each's struggles for shadows and terraformative continuation or stability-for-recognition , yet not in an intimidating dark sort of way ... distance and projection , and possibly even ESP is stimulated , without a person needing to either know exactly what is going on , nor why different levels of dream entrapment happen as the movie develops , forcing you to try to continue to try to identify where the ongoing problem in the technology lies , inamongst the characters , that you just can't know well enough to be able to ... forces you to try to use other indicators ... almost a last-minute cramming of psychoanalytic method of dream object identification for the average Jap. animation fan ... fantastic stimulation !!Don't think about it too much ... you can probably just watch , and try to spot things , almost like a game , unlike what one can take seriously of one's own or loved ones' minds ... a invasion of privacy , yet to come ?Great for an introduction to dream-scapes , even for the young ... sure to get them seeking out hidden parts of their minds they never knew they had ... perhaps not for those sensitive to horror ... better than many though ... more like egg-shell shock weirdness , than horror ... fantastic !Rodney Edwin Welsh

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Burnedmyguitar
2007/06/01

Do we want our dreams to become our reality? Is our dreams the answer or the question to that reality? How does our dreams shape how we see our self's in real life? This is just a few "little" questions that Paprika manages to raise in its explosive 90 minutes screen time. The creative power and sheer imagination which it portrays during this time is indeed impressive. Combine that with themes of life and death, love, dreams, technology etc. and it's still manages to be enjoyably encompassing. It's really science fiction at its best!Of course this isn't news for fans of the late Satoshi Kon, who has showed us a new side of our self's with each new film he has created. The psychology of dreams has been pretty much in all of his film and each time with an new angle for us to consider. While his other films has touched upon the subject of memories more than dreams, I feel both has been present throughout and that dreams got the spotlight this time.I rated this film the lowest of all of his films, but still I gave an 8/10, which isn't low by any stretch of the imagination. What I felt was different in this film and what I felt had diminished was the focus on the characters over the ideas. In this film the characters took a backseat to what ideas he wanted to put up front. I felt that the characters suffered somewhat to the spectacle of the incredible animation which took over more and more. His other films had it the other way around and felt more personal in nature, they emphasized the drama/thriller aspect of the story. Here the science fiction takes over towards the third act, and the film becomes a much more abstract conversation with the viewer instead of an emotional understanding.Still, a really great film that's gorgeous to look at, and one of the few films that really captures the absolute chaos of fantasy in dreams. Films like these are probably the closest we will come for some time, to the technology of sharing dreams as portrayed in this movie. Might be a good thing after all, as we just got mature enough to go see "Dreaming Kids".

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