Paprika

Paprika

Country:Japan

Director:Satoshi Kon

Program:Contemporary World Cinema

Year: 
2006

Duration: 
90

Summary:

Satoshi Kon’s groundbreaking and gleefully colourful anime pushes at the border line of our personal reality sensors. Three scientists at a foundation for Psychiatric Research fail to secure a device they have 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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