Paprika (2006)

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7.6	Rating (760 ratings)
7.7	IMDB rating

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Directed by

Satoshi Kon

Starring (View all)

Megumi Hayashibara
Paprika / Chiba Atsuko

Tôru Furuya
Tokita Kohsaku

Kôichi Yamadera
Osanai Morio

Toru Emori
Inui Sei-jiroh

Akio Ôtsuka
Detective Kogawa Toshimi

Akio Ohtsuka
Detective Kogawa Toshimi

Hideyuki Tanaka
Guy (voice)

Satomi Koorogi
Japanese Doll

Written by

Yasutaka Tsutsui
(novel)

Satoshi Kon
(screenplay)

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Paprika, is the inside of my head this messed up?

12 years, 4 months ago at Sep 28 18:06

Lexi

2 votes

"That's right, keep running. There are no boundaries to dreams. The spirit will be freed from the constraints of the body... and gain limitless freedom. Including me! I will also be free!"

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.

Megumi Hayashibara: Papr... read more

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17 years, 8 months ago at Jun 17 17:42

aechris

1 vote

Fantastic movie with amazing music and incredible visuals. The story is interesting enough and the characters are pretty well flushed out... until the end. The end is a huge letdown.

A very good movie

8 months ago at Jun 18 8:12

johanlefourbe

1 vote

To be honest, I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but, since it seemed to have a decent reputation and since it was available on Netflix, I thought I might as well check it out. I remember it so well, more than 20 years ago, I saw ‘Pâfekuto burû’, Satoshi Kon’s directorial debut, and back then, I was just so blown away by the damned thing. I never saw it again, and after ... read more

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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.

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“To be honest, I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but, since it seemed to have a decent reputation and since it was available on Net”

johanlefourbe posted a review 8 months ago

A very good movie

“To be honest, I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but, since it seemed to have a decent reputation and since it was available on Netflix, I thought I might as well check it out. I remember it so well, more than 20 years ago, I saw ‘Pâfekuto burû’, Satoshi Kon’s directorial debut, and back then, I was just so blown away by the damned thing. I never saw it again, and after all these years, well,I had a similar experience with Kon’s final directorial effort. I also heard that this movie was an inspiration for ‘Inception’ and it was indeed pretty obvious. Basically, this movie displayed what ‘Inception’ would have been if they would have removed all the action scenes and if they would have gone for a much weirder approach. Seriously, the opening scene was ju” read more