Paprika
by Satoshi Kon
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Director: Satoshi KonBrand: HAYASHIBARA,MEGUMI
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: I HATE ANIME but loved Paprika!
Summary: 5 Stars
Totally great fun - also great for people who might not ordinarily do anime, like me. Definitely not in the least predictable.
basic, basic plot: Prototype machine used by psychotherapists to access clients' dreams for treatment gets stolen, hallucinogenic havoc ensues with dreams going haywire for everyone. Who's behind it, and why?
The animation is beautiful, and the colors are lovely. I caught the regular DVD, not high-def, and I was very happy with it. Good subtitles. It's a bit sci-fi but I think the mystery of dreaming - and the hope that dreaming holds some key to our own internal issues - is universally appealing, so don't be put off by the machine stuff.
nudity: Some nudity which occurs in a threatening situation, but nothing x-rated or sketchy. I'd say 12 and up, if you want to show it to a kid.
DVD Review: Leaves you speachless
Summary: 5 Stars
Rarely do you see a movie that just takes you breath away. I was left sitting in my living room just sitting in the dark after the credits rolled. It must have been 5 min. where I was just staring off into space when finaly I said "WOW!!". Truly amazing. Great story, amazing animation, superb sound track. As soon as the opening title rolled I knew this was something special. Buy it! Share it! Watch it over and over!DVD Review: ANIME_LOVER
Summary: 4 Stars
visually, i really like this movie, my first time watching a blu ray and all i can say is WOW! I watched it on my ps3 and want to purchase more blu ray animation. as for the movie, I like more action, something like bersek. thats why i gave 4 stars. i wanted to watch something different thats why i gave this movie a try. im not disappointed, and i dont regret the purchase:)DVD Review: Insanely complex, but supremely captivating, movie
Summary: 5 Stars
Having seen Paprika only once, I'm putting down my first impressions on what may be a masterpiece of anime. I think the film will probably demand at least two more viewings just to get anywhere near an idea of what's going on, let alone to sort out the plot.
Paprika starts within a dream, and after the first viewing I'm not sure if the movie ever leaves the dream world for any semblence of the real world. There seems to be a reality within the movie, but all too often it merges with what is certainly a dream world. Don't get me wrong, this is not a bad thing, but it is intensely complicated because there's no way to be sure that there's any sort of reality to hold onto.
There is a plot which has to do with the stealing of a device that helps people enter other peoples' dreams. My question, at this point, is whether the device (which appears both within a dream and in the supposed 'real world') actually even exists in the film's 'real world' or whether it is just a figment of one of the characters' dreams.
The film seems to be exploring the boundaries of what's real, in the same way that movies like The Thirteenth Floor and, to a lesser extent, The Matrix do. However, while those other movies do reach a definite 'reality' during the course of the film, I'm not at all sure that Paprika does the same. Before seeing Paprika I had watched Millennium Actress by the same director, but while Millennium Actress is more complex than most movies it is simplistic in comparison to Paprika.
Perhaps at this point I'm trying to over-analyze the film. Maybe I should just let it wash over me for a couple of viewings and just go with the flow. It may also be that there is not supposed to be any certain interpretation, and it may be that, like a dream, it has many possible interpretations.
I'm both looking forward to - and dreading - my second viewing of this very interesting film. I'm looking forward to it in the hope that I can figure out another 10% of what the film is all about, and I'm dreading it because I may find that what I thought I knew might be completely wrong, and I might end up knowing less about the film than I think I already know. Either way though, this film experience will have been well worth the money I paid for the DVD.
This movie will not be enjoyed by folks who want to sit down and relax their brain for 90 minutes while mindless action and explosions happen onscreen - i.e. it's not for fans of Michael Bay blockbusters, but it's essential viewing for folks who are not afraid to have a film give the organ that sits between their ears a darned good workout.
Regarding the DVD itself (I bought the Blu-Ray version), the film features three or four previews, a director's commentary (which I haven't listened to yet for fear of it giving away too many spoilers), a 'making of' documentary, as well as a 'conversation about the dream' between the people behind the movie (the writer of the original novel, the film's director and the two main actors). Also, there are the usual storyboard comparisons that they throw onto DVDs whenever there's extra space, which I must admit I never bother with.
The image and sound are good, although I felt the dubbed version (which I listened to) needed subtitles in a couple of places when a crowd was shouting in unison. Since subtitles can be switched on and off easily this was no problem. One thing I noticed is that the subtitles are very different from the dub, so it's hard to watch the film in English with English subtitles - it's almost as if you get two stories, so since I don't understand Japanese I'm not sure which is better - though I suspect the subtitles are closer to the director's original intent. The film is anamorphic 1.85:1, enhanced for widescreen TVs.
DVD Review: Dream Logic
Summary: 5 Stars
I am not too much of an anime guy, but I don't hate it either. Every now and then I like me some bug-eyed girls in mini skirts swinging giant swords and piloting giant robots. However, there are a couple of directors working in the medium that are giants in the Japanese film industry, who could proudly stand side-by-side with Kurosawa Akira, Ozu Yasujiro and Mizoguchi Kenji. Miyazaki Hayao is one. Takahata Isao is another. A third in the group is Kon Satoshi, a director who never ceases to amaze me and who's every film is a delight and a wonder.
His latest film, "Paprika", tells the story of a stolen DC Mini dream machine, a distraught police detective Konakawa, a child-like scientist named Tokita, and the beautiful but cold Doctor Atsuko Chiba and her wild dream-persona Paprika. Based on the novel by science fiction master Tsutsui Yasutaka, who also wrote Girl Who Leapt Through Time, the story is a trip into realms of psychotherapy, dream logic and pure id unleashed.
However, like all dreams, dwelling on the storyline is a mistake. It is all about the imagery and the way the rules of reality can be torn to shreds yet still make perfect sense at the time. Kon has always dealt with the themes of reality/unreality, and plays with the animation genre as no other director does. Realms shift effortlessly from one to another, leaving the viewer completely disorientated, but in a good way. Here, he is channeling his best Windsor McKay and Little Nemo In Slumberland, where physics are just a plaything to be bent and twisted.
Of course, as one would expect from a Kon Satoshi flick, the animation is absolutely spectacular. He can effortlessly flow between CGI and traditional cel animation, and in pure control of the medium there is no one who can match him. Other animators may tug on the heartstrings more, like Miyazaki or Takahata, but neither are as dazzling as Kon in the sheer mechanics of animation.
This DVD is beautiful, and they included the same extras found on the Japanese DVD release. I am sorry I missed this one on the big screen, but it is an absolute must-see in any format.
Description of Paprika
No Description Available.Genre: Animation
Rating: R
Release Date: 27-NOV-2007
Media Type: DVD
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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