Paprika R
This is your brain on anime
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 30 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 22, 2008
- Originally Released: 2006
- Label: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Directed by | Satoshi Kon | |
Voice: | Megumi Hayashibara |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2/5 --
With a conventional invade-dreams/bend-reality plot, it's a bit of a bore.
Orlando Sentinel
Rating: 3/4 --
We're so used to current cautious commercial formulas, it comes as an enjoyable shock to see something like Satoshi Kon's Japanese film, Paprika, which reminds us that with animation, almost anything you can imagine can be represented.
Globe and Mail
3 stars out of 5 -- The dream sequences that spiral through the film have the transitory strangeness of ETERNAL SUNSHINE and create an engrossing plot able to straddle both reality and fantasy.
Ultimate DVD
Rating: 3/4 --
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.
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Detroit Free Press
Reality and fantasy leak into each other in short-circuiting jolts in Kon's cosmos
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CinePassion
Rating: 3.5/5 --
Though it's not quite up there with the cream of anime feature films, Paprika is a distinctive, quality addition to the genre.
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Film4
Images tumble and flow from subconscious minds stuffed like junk shops with warrior dolls, scary clowns, predatory beasts, parade floats, pop artifacts and surreal movie scenes....The abundance is almost mad, and madly enjoyable.
Wall Street Journal
Product Description:
With PAPRIKA, Satoshi Kon (TOKYO GODFATHERS, MILLENNIUM ACTRESS) unleashes another eye-popping anime adventure. The visually striking thriller is set in the not-too-distant future, where doctors are developing a groundbreaking new psychotherapy treatment called PT. This coincides with the invention of a device called the "DC Mini," which enables researchers to enter the dreams of a subject and explore matters of the unconscious mind. But one day, a "DC Mini" prototype goes missing, and the doctors are thrown into a world of confusion. They realize how dangerous a turn of events this could be, and to ensure that things don't spiral out of control, they embark on a mad quest to track down the missing prototype. The pretty but timid Dr. Atsuko Chiba teams up with the food-loving Dr. Tokita to find his assistant, Himuro, who has disappeared. Unfortunately, it is at this time that Atsuko's boss, Torataro Shima, tries to commit suicide. Dr. Tokita calls in an old friend, Detective Konakawa, to help the team find an answer to the rapidly devolving problem. As the characters use their dreamworld alter egos to enter the dreams of troubled patients, the line between reality and unreality begins to blur, until no one knows for sure what is real and what isn't. An adaptation of a story by the acclaimed Japanese writer Yasutaka Tsutsui, PAPRIKA tells a tough-to-decipher, but spellbinding, tale. Kon's thought-provoking film features an absurdly catchy J-pop score and an unforgettable visual landscape.
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- Sales Rank: 53,520
- UPC: 043396189119
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