This is your brain on anime.
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.
Director: Satoshi Kon
Cast: Megumi Hayashibara, Tohru Emori, Katsunosuke Hori, Toru Furuya, Akio Otsuka, Koichi Yamadera, Hideyuki Tanaka, Satoshi Kon
The Movie Diorama - 8/10
Paprika sprinkles its spicy originality across a sprawling vibrant fever dream. Dreams are windows to the imaginative capacity of the subconscious. Manipulating memories to fabricate worlds unbounded by the physical laws of reality. An endless wave of colours and possibilities, requiring no legitimacy for their existence. In psychology, dreams are a method for interrogating the mentality of its su...
January 16, 2020
Alunauwie - 8/10
Paprika explores a surreal world where dreams and reality collide after the dream-entering device DC Mini is stolen, unleashing chaos that erodes the boundaries between the two realms. Through striking visual contrasts—nightmarish logic, vibrant dream parades, and fractured reality—the film reveals buried trauma, guilt, and ego within each character. Ultimately, it presents dreams not as an escape...
January 1, 2026
This is your brain on anime.
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.
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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.
1h 30m
October 1, 2006
Satoshi Kon
Megumi Hayashibara, Tohru Emori, Katsunosuke Hori
Science Fiction, Thriller, Animation
