Paprika

When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patient's dreams is stolen, all hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist can stop it and recover it before damage is done: Paprika.

Cast

Megumi Hayashibara

as Paprika / Atsuko Chiba (voice)

Tohru Emori

as Seijiro Inui (voice)

Katsunosuke Hori

as Torataro Shima (voice)

Toru Furuya

as Kosaku Tokita (voice)

Akio Otsuka

as Toshimi Konakawa (voice)

Koichi Yamadera

as Morio Osanai (voice)

Hideyuki Tanaka

as Guy (voice)

Satoshi Kon

as Jinnai (voice)

Yasutaka Tsutsui

as Kuga (voice)

Satomi Korogi

as Japanese Doll (voice)

Reviews

The Movie Diorama

Paprika sprinkles its spicy originality across a sprawling vibrant fever dream. Dreams are windows to the imaginative capacity of the subconscious. Manipulating memories to fabricate worlds unbounded by the physical laws of reality. An endless wave of colours and possibilities, requiring no legitima...

Alunauwie

Paprika explores a surreal world where dreams and reality collide after the dream-entering device DC Mini is stolen, unleashing chaos that erodes the boundaries between the two realms. Through striking visual contrasts—nightmarish logic, vibrant dream parades, and fractured reality—the film reveals ...

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