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Paprika
Directed by
Satoshi Kon
R
2006
90m
Science Fiction
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Animation
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7.7
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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.
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Cast of Paprika
Megumi Hayashibara
Paprika / Atsuko Chiba (voice)
Tohru Emori
Seijiro Inui (voice)
Katsunosuke Hori
Torataro Shima (voice)
Toru Furuya
Kosaku Tokita (voice)
Akio Otsuka
Toshimi Konakawa (voice)
Koichi Yamadera
Morio Osanai (voice)
Hideyuki Tanaka
Guy (voice)
Satoshi Kon
Jinnai (voice) / Director / Screenplay
Yasutaka Tsutsui
Kuga (voice) / Novel
Satomi Korogi
Japanese Doll (voice)
Rikako Aikawa
Nobue Kakimoto (voice)
Shinya Fukumatsu
(voice)
Kumiko Izumi
(voice)
Eiji Miyashita
(voice)
Mitsuo Iwata
Yasushi Tsumura (voice)
Shinichiro Ohta
(voice)
Akiko Kawase
(voice)
Anri Katsu
(voice)
Kozo Mito
(voice)
Keiichiro Endo
(voice)
Paprika Ratings & Reviews
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Paprika, while certainly not suitable for kids, manages to capture the childlike, helter-skelter chaos and curiosity of the human mind better than any other animated film.
Arizona Republic
Richard Nilsen
You could sit through the film two or three times to nail down the details of the story, but the film isn't interesting enough to warrant a second look.
Houston Chronicle
Bruce Westbrook
Is it sci-fi? Fantasy? Idiocy? Mostly it's a droning mess -- pretty to look at but confounding to the point where you just don't care any more.
Detroit Free Press
John Monaghan
Especially for fans who understand how movies are put together, Paprika grabs you from the get-go in a series of flowing images and transitions that follow the skewed logic of a dream, jumping from a three-ring circus to a swinging jungle vine.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
This one jacks you into cyberspace, involving you psychically and physically.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
The movie bombards us with so many overlapping fantasies, it's hard -- and in many ways, beside the point -- to keep up with the plot. It's best appreciated by assuming something of a dream state ourselves and enjoying the giddy flow.
Seattle Times
John Hartl
What keeps the picture percolating is the stream of hallucinatory images, both nightmarish and oddly alluring, that Kon conjures.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
This is without question a unique and superior achievement.
Chicago Sun-Times
Paige Wiser
My advice? Enter your own dream state, and surrender your brain.
Chicago Reader
Andrea Gronvall
[A] dizzying, ambitious excursion into the subconscious.
AV Club
Tasha Robinson
Kon rarely cares about the stagnant old real world that his films so frequently transcend. His characters fuss endlessly about fantasy's gripping, consuming power, but he himself seems blissfully unconcerned with where his gorgeous illusions take them.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
The movie keeps flooding us with strange, scary imagery.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
You stagger out of this one both grateful and ready for a deep and dreamless nap.
Newsday
John Anderson
That the supposed bad guys are actually intent in preserving the sanctity of dreams adds to the disorienting exhilaration of Kon's best work yet.
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
For an alternate set of exciting alter egos, see Satoshi Kon's Paprika, a brilliant anime feature.
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
[Satoshi] Kon mixes visual beauty with disorienting perspectives for a cautionary tale about machine-influenced soullessness and the persistent Japanese popular love of the cute.
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
I can't claim to have followed the story line of Paprika any better than I did Pirates of the Caribbean, but this mind-blowing, adult animated adventure from Japan is half the length and maybe five times as much fun.
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Whatever it is you're looking for -- comedy, horror, parades of singing frogs and dancing kitchen appliances -- you'll find it in Satoshi Kon's anime adventure, a jaw-dropping feat of imagination.
Slate
Dana Stevens
The über-dream is both gorgeously animated, in Kon's shimmering, hyperreal style, and sickeningly scary.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Fiercely provocative, Paprika shames Hollywood's use of animation as a kiddie pacifier.
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