Paprika (Papurika) (2006)

Listal's Favorite Animated Films Poll (352 movies items)

" 5 Voters: Yulle, Ruisperkele, Nebb, Harmonica, martyrofevil"

Mack's Movies 2013: April (19 movies items)

" April 27th: Online streaming, computer Overall opinion: Awesome! Paprika was great. I would recommend this to anyone who likes animation; it's not aimed at kids which lets it get a little weird and it's got a great great great story (though it will seem familiar, remember this came out before Inception) and it's visually stunning to a wonderful degree. I was so impressed, I watched it two more times after my first viewing. Lots of fun! It is just weird and surreal enough to feel like an act"

Movie Diary 2013: January (17 movies items)

"January 30th Creepy..Yet fairly entertaining. I'm quite a fan of Japanese anime movies, like Studio Ghibli etc. But this was very different not like a Ghibli Movie, it was very weird, one of them delusional films. I personally don't think everyone will enjoy this movie, as it's very very different and as it's a borderline mind game movie, some people might just think of it as plain stupid. I quite like it, in my words, a pretty watchable movie, and I would defiantly recommend it to Japanese an"

Mushrooms Movie Diary 2013 (38 movies items)

"06.01.2012"

Non-Disney, Non-Pixar, Non-Ghibli Animated Films (79 movies items)

"Satoshi Kon's final film before his untimely death is a mixed bag which reportedly inspired Chris Nolan's 'Inception'. The story of a research psychologist who develops a device to enter patients' dreams, 'Paprika' has a confusing plot jammed with ideas. Some would say there is too much going on but through sheer relentlessness 'Paprika' achieves a wonderful sort of dreamlike logic of its own. The colourful, busy images we are presented with are so beautifully rendered that often the viewer d"

New-to-Me Films of 2012 (366 movies items)

"Satoshi Kon's unbridled imagination runs wild in Paprika, a film that attempts - with brilliance - to capture the sheer absurdity of dreams. Though it takes a while to pick up, and becomes a bit of a mess by the final third, its premise is fresh, exceedingly clever, and very surreal. "