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Paprika

  • 20062006
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  • 1h 30m
IMDb RATING
7.7/10
87K
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Paprika (2006)
When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patients' dreams is stolen, all hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist, Paprika, can stop it.
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When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patients' dreams is stolen, all hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist, Paprika, can stop it.When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patients' dreams is stolen, all hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist, Paprika, can stop it.When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patients' dreams is stolen, all hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist, Paprika, can stop it.
IMDb RATING
7.7/10
87K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
3,647
89
  • Director
    • Satoshi Kon
  • Writers
    • Yasutaka Tsutsui(novel)
    • Seishi Minakami(screenplay)
    • Satoshi Kon(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Megumi Hayashibara(voice)
    • Tôru Emori(voice)
    • Katsunosuke Hori(voice)
  • Director
    • Satoshi Kon
  • Writers
    • Yasutaka Tsutsui(novel)
    • Seishi Minakami(screenplay)
    • Satoshi Kon(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Megumi Hayashibara(voice)
    • Tôru Emori(voice)
    • Katsunosuke Hori(voice)
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 169User reviews
    • 171Critic reviews
    • 81Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 6 wins & 5 nominations

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    Megumi Hayashibara
    Megumi Hayashibara
    • Paprika
    • (voice)
    • …
    Tôru Emori
    • Inui Sei-jiroh
    • (voice)
    Katsunosuke Hori
    • Shima Tora-taroh
    • (voice)
    Tôru Furuya
    Tôru Furuya
    • Tokita Kohsaku
    • (voice)
    Kôichi Yamadera
    Kôichi Yamadera
    • Osanai Morio
    • (voice)
    Akio Ôtsuka
    Akio Ôtsuka
    • Detective Kogawa Toshimi
    • (voice)
    Hideyuki Tanaka
    Hideyuki Tanaka
    • Guy
    • (voice)
    Satomi Kôrogi
    Satomi Kôrogi
    • Japanese Doll
    • (voice)
    Daisuke Sakaguchi
    Daisuke Sakaguchi
    • Himuro Kei
    • (voice)
    Mitsuo Iwata
    Mitsuo Iwata
    • Tsumura Yasushi
    • (voice)
    Rikako Aikawa
    • Kakimoto Nobue
    • (voice)
    Shin'ichirô Ôta
    • Reporter
    • (voice)
    Satoshi Kon
    Satoshi Kon
    • Jin-nai
    • (voice)
    Yasutaka Tsutsui
    • Kuga
    • (voice)
    Brian Beacock
    Brian Beacock
    • Hajime Himuro
    • (English version)
    • (voice)
    • …
    Doug Erholtz
    Doug Erholtz
    • Dr. Morio Osanai
    • (English version)
    • (voice)
    Michael Forest
    Michael Forest
    • Dr. Seijiro Inui
    • (English version)
    • (voice)
    Shin'ya Fukumatsu
    • Magician
    • (voice)
    • (as Shinya Fukumatsu)
    • Director
      • Satoshi Kon
    • Writers
      • Yasutaka Tsutsui(novel)
      • Seishi Minakami(screenplay)
      • Satoshi Kon(screenplay)
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    • Trivia
      When Paprika interviews Konakawa in his filmmaker guise, his mannerisms and appearance resemble that of Akira Kurosawa.
    • Quotes

      Paprika: ...the Internet and dreams are similar. They're areas where the repressed conscious mind escapes.

    • Connections
      Featured in WatchMojo: Top 10 Beautiful Animated Movies (2014)
    • Soundtracks
      Parade
      Composed and Performed by Susumu Hirasawa

    User reviews169

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    His Own Mirror
    What happens when you see a wonderful film, a truly wonderful one, and you are disappointed because the very last one you saw was from the same filmmaker and was very much better? I should have watched some trash first.

    The better film I'm alluding to is "Millennium Actress," a wonderful slippery glide through a shifting of life, movies and personal memory. Several things made that great: the drawings were in some places marvelous; the reason for the slips was never explained; and the "wrapping" story was incredibly thin, just barely enough. It was clearly a movie about movies and how life and film make each other.

    This one conflates life, dreams and movies in much the same way, and goes further by merging individual lives and dreams. But it is burdened by two things. The first is that the wrapping story is large, heavy. The second is that we have a tedious explanation about why the slips occur: some invented device. And it adopts the Godzilla/Transformers model where two giants fight, towering over the city. Jees.

    Two things are superior, however. One is that the dreamworlds give the artist freedom to depart from the constraints of the real. It isn't surreal: that's a very specific thing. But you do have dancing refrigerators leading a parade to hell. You may not appreciate the visuals here, in fact I suspect most won't think them special. But I did.

    But the main thing is the title character, a lovely redheaded virtual soul who lives in the dreamworld. She's the pinnacle of girl fantasy: capable, not real, fairy-like but strong, desirable but forceful, following the rules of the world sometimes and writing the rules at other. She's woven from something deep in the psyche, our usually unfound soulmate who writes our dreams that spill into our lives.

    But her appearance and character isn't what amazes here. Its how many different ways the filmmaker has her interact with the dream world. I stopped noting them because they were so varied and clever. She flies of course, she morphs. She shares a body in the real world of a woman scientist. (There's a truly remarkable dream scene when a vagina is "unzipped" to the forehead to reveal the true woman within.) She merges with shadows, reflections, light and shadow. She appears from dolls and billboards, clouds. From cracks and folds. Its as if there was a list of all possibilities that is being exhausted.

    I will suggest that you see this before "Millennium Actress." Then both will blow you away.

    Ted's Evaluation -- 3 of 3: Worth watching.
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    • Release date
      • June 22, 2007 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • Japan
    • Official sites
      • DVD site - Sony Home Entertainment (United States)
      • Official site (United States)
    • Languages
      • Japanese
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Kẻ Trộm Giấc Mơ
    • Production companies
      • Madhouse
      • Sony Pictures Entertainment
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • ¥300,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $882,267
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $35,593
      • May 27, 2007
    • Gross worldwide
      • $946,590
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 30 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • SDDS
      • DTS
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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