Paprika

  • Animation
  • Science Fiction
  • Thriller
10/1/2006
90
R

This is your brain on anime.

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.

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Revenue:
$946,590
Budget:
$2,600,000

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  • themoviediorama

    Paprika sprinkles its spicy originality across a sprawling vibrant fever dream. Dreams are windows to the imaginative capacity of the subconscious. Manipulating memories to fabricate worlds unbounded by the physical laws of reality. An endless wave of colours and possibilities, requiring no legitimacy for their existence. In psychology, dreams are a method for interrogating the mentality of its subject. Recurring nightmares could be a sign of stress-induced anxiety, fear or mental disorders. The late Satoshi Kon, in what was his last full feature, harnessed the concept of Tsutsuis novel and challenged the limitations of Japanese animation once again.

    Paprika is the equivalent of a hallucinogenic warped mind-bending drug-induced fever dre...

    January 16, 2020
  • Alunauwie

    Paprika explores a surreal world where dreams and reality collide after the dream-entering device DC Mini is stolen, unleashing chaos that erodes the boundaries between the two realms. Through striking visual contrastsnightmarish logic, vibrant dream parades, and fractured realitythe film reveals buried trauma, guilt, and ego within each character. Ultimately, it presents dreams not as an escape, but as a mirror that forces humanity to confront what it hides deepest within.

    Read the full review here: (Indonesian version : alunauwie.com) and (English version : uwiepuspita.com)

    January 1, 2026

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