Paprika December 7, 2007

$5 / Season $50

Paprika Dir: Satoshi Kon, Japan, 2006, 90 min, R

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 invention to discover what the people she is trailing really think. When a thief steals the one-of-a-kind machine from Atsuko, Paprika sets out to find it as a wave of psychological instability tears through the city.

In Japanese with English subtitles.

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