Paprika
by Satoshi Kon
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Director: Satoshi KonBrand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: Japanese (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Anamorphic, Dolby, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-11-27
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures
DVD Reviews of Paprika
DVD Review: A joy to watch!
Summary: 5 Stars
I've been a huge fan of Satoshi Kon since watching Perfect Blue, and this film is no exception. A unique and engaging story, gorgeous animation, and great voice acting for the English dub. As with all of this director's works, this is an adult-oriented anime, but only because of the themes involved and complexity of the story, not because of gratuitous nudity or fountains of blood. Enjoy!DVD Review: Paprika Grabs You Within Minutes and Doesn't Let Go.
Summary: 5 Stars
The beauty of Satoshi Kon's movies is that it's a waste of time trying to play chess with the story and attempt to beat it to the end. Clever twists are there, but aren't the reward of careful viewership. Instead he celebrates the process of unpredictiablity over the product, which is good news if you're willing to just let go and be lead by the nose through his stories. Transitions from image to reality are usually subtle in his films. With Paprika, he goes all out and dunks you into a dream world one minute and yanks you out the minute after. It's the best whiplash you'll ever have. And like so many of his films, Paprika is one that stays with you long after the movie is over.DVD Review: The only reason I don't give it a 5 star review is the English audio...
Summary: 3 Stars
For starters, I've not ever written a review on Amazon and I almost never bother to add my own thoughts to these types of reviews but I want anyone about to buy this to know a few things before they do. I LOVE this movie, I really do and you would think that a movie that was obviously put together with such precision and detail that in the end, when they decided to tap the OTHER 'biggest' anime market out there or, the English speaking audience that they would have spent considerable time when it came time to dub the English audio. This has to be one of the worst hack jobs of most of the great anime movies or series out there. To say it is bad might just be an understatement. The voice of 'Paprika' is a high pitched Bettie Boop knock off making the watching and enjoyment of this movie just that more difficult unfortunately. Again, this is an incredible movie and DON'T NOT buy this just because the English audio sucks. Just be sure to watch in Japanese and read the subtitles instead. The plot line requires a lot of deep thought so it can be a little annoying reading and analyzing at the same time, in such depth, but watching in English audio is just painful. I really had hoped that when they decided to do the Blu Ray version of this that they'd have dumped the original English audio and decided to just re-do the whole thing. In Japan, the people that provided their voices to the characters do a deep study of the characters they play. It sounds like the English 'actors' spent about 2 weeks with a script, stopped by a starbucks on the way into the recording studio and winged it when they got in there. Even the way the lines are read you can tell the 'actors' don't even really understand WHAT is really going on in the film because the lines are delivered in all the wrong ways. It's just a little dissapointing to see all this work put into such an amazing film only to come up short on the audio. Buy the movie, in Blu Ray. But do the sub and NOT the dub.DVD Review: An amusing film...
Summary: 3 Stars
Like all of his work, beautifully drawn from start to end. I liked 'Perfect Blue' more though.DVD Review: Worth watching!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
There's something wonderfully sublime about Japanese culture and anime is definitely one of the ultimate expressions of that indefinable "something" that makes Japan so alluring. Case and point is this film where everything is so incredibly layered and working on so many different levels. Paprika is definitely a high water mark for anime and all that it represents. The main character is especially interesting, sort of like a super hero with a split personality or something...I think...I'm still not sure exactly what's going on but I've only watched the movie twice. It's definitely a film you'll need to watch more than once.
The visuals are stunning, the sound track is amazing, everything comes together. There were one or two parts that dragged but besides that this was a perfect movie.
Description of Paprika
Prepare to enter the realm of fantasy and imagination where reality and dreams collide in a kaleidoscopic mindscape of sheer visual genius. The magical tale centers on a revolutionary machine that allows scientists to enter and record a subject's dream. After being stolen, a fearless detective and brilliant therapist join forces to recover the device before it falls into the hands of a dream terrorist in this gripping anime thriller from acclaimed director Satoshi Kon.Based on a novel by the noted Japanese science fiction writer Yasutaka Tsutui, the brilliant and unsettling feature Paprika continues director Satoshi Kon's exploration of the disturbingly permeable boundaries between dreams and reality. Techno-geek Kosaku Tokita invented the DC Mini to allow therapists to enter a patient's dreams and explore his unconscious, but an evil cabal uses the Mini to create a mass nightmare that causes multiple suicides. Psychotherapist Atsuko Chiba uses her alter-identity, "dream detective" Paprika, to intervene. Entering the nightmare, she witness a bizarre parade of appliances, toys, and kitsch objects: All of her intelligence and imagination are needed to escape this nightmare and its perpetrators. As he did in Millennium Actress and Paranoia Agent, Kon effortlessly carries the audience between reality and fantasy, confirming his reputation as one of the most talented and interesting directors working in animation today. (Rated R: violence, violence against women, grotesque imagery, alcohol and tobacco use) --Charles Solomon
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