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.
- Awards
- 6 wins & 5 nominations
Megumi Hayashibara
- Paprika
- (voice)
- …
Tôru Emori
- Inui Sei-jiroh
- (voice)
Tôru Furuya
- Tokita Kohsaku
- (voice)
Kôichi Yamadera
- Osanai Morio
- (voice)
Hideyuki Tanaka
- Guy
- (voice)
Satomi Kôrogi
- Japanese Doll
- (voice)
Daisuke Sakaguchi
- Himuro Kei
- (voice)
Mitsuo Iwata
- Tsumura Yasushi
- (voice)
Rikako Aikawa
- Kakimoto Nobue
- (voice)
Shinichiro Ota
- Reporter
- (voice)
- (as Shin'ichirô Ôta)
Satoshi Kon
- Jin-nai
- (voice)
Yasutaka Tsutsui
- Kuga
- (voice)
Brian Beacock
- Hajime Himuro
- (English version)
- (voice)
- …
Doug Erholtz
- Dr. Morio Osanai
- (English version)
- (voice)
Michael Forest
- Dr. Seijiro Inui
- (English version)
- (voice)
Shin'ya Fukumatsu
- Magician
- (voice)
- (as Shinya Fukumatsu)
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaWhen Paprika interviews Konakawa in his filmmaker guise, his mannerisms and appearance resemble that of Akira Kurosawa.
- ConnectionsFeatured in WatchMojo: Top 10 Beautiful Animated Movies (2014)
- SoundtracksParade
Composed and Performed by Susumu Hirasawa
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Sugar and Spice
I'm still a bit stunned after watching this movie - and that amazingly OTT theme music is running around my head. I'm not much of an Anime fan - I find most of it simply too juvenile. But this is something else entirely - a crazed storyline, like something Phillip K. Dick would have come up with on mescaline...
I won't attempt much of a summary as its entirely possible I've gotten it all wrong, but it involves a dream detective who may (or may not) be an alter ego of a scientist involved in a machine to read dreams, a detective who may (or may not) have had some involvement a murder he is investigating, a wheelchair bound CEO who..... oh, nevermind, this is pointless! Suffice to say from the very first scene there is a stunning overload of images and overlapping stories, and its difficult to know if even the director had a clear idea of what he was saying. But its never, for one moment boring, and i strongly suspect there are multiple deeper meanings going on here, this is a movie that will stand up to multiple viewings to try to decode all the sub plots and metaphors.
Even if you are not a fan of anime, if you just like dazzling film making that will stretch your imagination - Paprika is for you (and no, i have no idea why she is called Paprika).
I won't attempt much of a summary as its entirely possible I've gotten it all wrong, but it involves a dream detective who may (or may not) be an alter ego of a scientist involved in a machine to read dreams, a detective who may (or may not) have had some involvement a murder he is investigating, a wheelchair bound CEO who..... oh, nevermind, this is pointless! Suffice to say from the very first scene there is a stunning overload of images and overlapping stories, and its difficult to know if even the director had a clear idea of what he was saying. But its never, for one moment boring, and i strongly suspect there are multiple deeper meanings going on here, this is a movie that will stand up to multiple viewings to try to decode all the sub plots and metaphors.
Even if you are not a fan of anime, if you just like dazzling film making that will stretch your imagination - Paprika is for you (and no, i have no idea why she is called Paprika).
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- GyatsoLa
- Oct 19, 2007
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Box office
- Budget
- ¥300,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $882,267
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $35,593
- May 27, 2007
- Gross worldwide
- $950,688
- Runtime1 hour 30 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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