Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
Genre: Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Director: Satoshi Kon
DVD Release Date: 11/27/2007
Theatrical Release Date: 5/25/2007
PublishedId: 893900
UPC: 043396189119, 043396208667, 043396208674
Plot: Groundbreaking animator Satoshi Kon (whose credits include Tokyo Godfathers, Millennium Actress, and Perfect Blue) directed this visually spectacular adaptation of a science fiction novel by Yatsutaka Tsutsui. Atsuko is a psychiatrist who uses advanced technology to study the human mind.
Atsuko has developed a machine that will allow her to enter the dreams of her patients and study their psyches from the inside. Atsuko also does double duty as Paprika, a high-tech detective who uses this new innovation to find out the truth about what the people she's trailing really think. However, Atsuko falls victim to a thief who steals the one-of-a-kind machine, and Paprika sets out to find it as a wave of psychological instability tears through the city.
Paprika received its world premiere at the {~2006 Venice Film Festival}. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide.
