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.
Direction
Satoshi Kon's final film — every cut is a flex.
Editing
Reality and dream collapse into each other seamlessly.
Director
Satoshi Kon
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)
Yasutaka Tsutsui
Kuga (voice)
Satomi Korogi
Japanese Doll (voice)
Rikako Aikawa
Nobue Kakimoto (voice)
Shinya Fukumatsu
(voice)
Eiji Miyashita
(voice)
Mitsuo Iwata
Yasushi Tsumura (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Christopher Nolan reportedly screened Paprika while writing Inception. The debt is... visible.
Satoshi Kon died of pancreatic cancer in 2010 at 46. Paprika remains his wildest, most unrestrained statement on cinema itself as collective dream.
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