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Paprika is a Japanese animated film, based on Yasutaka Tsutsui's 1993 novel about a female detective who investigates criminal cases by entering the dreams of her subjects.
The film was directed by Satoshi Kon, animated by Madhouse Studios and will be released by Sony Pictures Classics on May 25, 2007. The original score was composed by Susumu Hirasawa who also composed the soundtrack for Kon's award-winning film, Millennium Actress, and equally-lauded television series, "Paranoia Agent."
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Genres: Animation, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Tagline: This is your brain on anime.
Plot Outline: 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: Paprika.
Plot Synopsis: Three scientists at the Foundation for Psychiatric Research fail to secure a device they've invented, the D.C. Mini, which allows people to record and watch their dreams. A thief uses the device to enter people's minds, when awake, and distract them with their own dreams and those of others. Chaos ensues. The trio - Chiba, Tokita, and Shima - assisted by a police inspector and by a sprite named Paprika must try to identify the thief as they ward off the thief's attacks on their own psyches. Dreams, reality, and the movies merge, while characters question the limits of science and the wisdom of Big Brother.
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is a Japanese animated science fiction film, based on Yasutaka Tsutsui's 1993 novel of the same name, about a research psychologist who uses a device that permits therapists to help patients by entering their dreams.
The film was directed by Satoshi Kon, animated by Madhouse & Rainbow SPA, and produced and distributed by Sony Pictures Entertainment. The film's music was composed by Susumu Hirasawa, who also composed the soundtrack for Kon's award-winning film, Millennium Actress, and equally lauded television series, Paranoia Agent.
The French trailer of Paprika
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Paprika opening credits
Paprika
Here's the intro credits for Satoshi Kon's Paprika: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0851578/ This movie has absolutely amazing animation, music unlike anything you've ever heard before, and a mind blowing story that makes you wonder where reality ends and dreams begin. This is an must see and will have a limited theatrical release in New York on May 25th and Los Angeles on June 1st. http://www.sonyclassics.com/paprika/
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Paprika
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Prepare to enter the realm of fantasy and imagination where reality and dreams collide in a kaleidoscopic mindscape of sheer visual genius. The magical tale centers on a revolutionary machine that allows scientists to enter and record a subject's dream. After being stolen, a fearless detective and brilliant therapist join forces to recover the device before it falls into the hands of a dream terrorist in this gripping anime thriller from acclaimed director Satoshi Kon.
Based on a novel by the noted Japanese science fiction writer Yasutaka Tsutui, the brilliant and unsettling feature Paprika continues director Satoshi Kon's exploration of the disturbingly permeable boundaries between dreams and reality. Techno-geek Kosaku Tokita invented the DC Mini to allow therapists to enter a patient's dreams and explore his unconscious, but an evil cabal uses the Mini to create a mass nightmare that causes multiple suicides. Psychotherapist Atsuko Chiba uses her alter-identity, "dream detective" Paprika, to intervene. Entering the nightmare, she witness a bizarre parade of appliances, toys, and kitsch objects: All of her intelligence and imagination are needed to escape this nightmare and its perpetrators. As he did in Millennium Actress and Paranoia Agent, Kon effortlessly carries the audience between reality and fantasy, confirming his reputation as one of the most talented and interesting directors working in animation today. (Rated R: violence, violence against women, grotesque imagery, alcohol and tobacco use) --Charles Solomon.
Paprika - The girl in Byakkoya by Susumu Hirasawa
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More about the Paprika Original Soundtrack
Paprika Original Soundtrack is the soundtrack for the 2006 film, Paprika and was released on November 23, 2006 under the TESLAKITE label. It was composed by Susumu Hirasawa. A bonus movie was included on the CD, using the closing theme to Paprika.
The last track, "The Girl in Byakkoya", features three spoken lines in Vietnamese.
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To quote the New York Film Festival, "If Japan's most famous anime filmmaker is Hayao Miyazaki, the most sophisticated is probably Satoshi Kon...His new movie plays like a head-on collision between Hello Kitty and Philip K. Dick...and as the characters shuttle from dream to dream, nightmare to nightmare, Paprika becomes a thrilling tour-de-force of visual invention - every frame is packed with imagination. This delightful movie is bursting with ideas about Japanese repression, multiple identities, collective dreams and the dark side of the country's love of Cute."
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Three months after her train accident, Nanase moves to the city, where she tries to blend into society and lead a normal life...but she soon realizes the challenges of getting lost in the crowd. So when she meets Henry, a fellow telepath, she discovers a kindred spirit--who chooses Nanase as his new mentor. But their partnership is soon put to the test, though, when Nanase is forced to come out of hiding to confront a vicious predator, who uses clairvoyance to lead his innocent victims down a path of utter darkness.
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- Evelyn_Saenz Evelyn_Saenz Dec 10, 2009 @ 10:00 am
- I've never heard of the movie Paprika before but you have me intrigued.
Just wanted to say how much I enjoy the comments you leave on lenses all around Squidoo. You always make me smile. Thank you for your special way with words.
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- dvirtualist dvirtualist May 2, 2009 @ 6:30 pm
- what can I say...you did it already! i was supposed to create a lens about the movie too. I enjoyed it much. watched it 3x.
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