Paprika
パプリカ
This is your brain on anime.
Overview
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.
- Budget
- $2,600,000
- Revenue
- $946,590
- Production
- Madhouse, Sony Pictures
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Cast
Megumi Hayashibara
Paprika / Atsuko Chiba (voice)
Tohru Emori
Seijiro Inui (voice)
Katsunosuke Hori
Torataro Shima (voice)
Toru Furuya
Kosaku Tokita (voice)
Akio Otsuka
Toshimi Konakawa (voice)
Koichi Yamadera
Morio Osanai (voice)
Hideyuki Tanaka
Guy (voice)
Satoshi Kon
Jinnai (voice)
Yasutaka Tsutsui
Kuga (voice)
Satomi Korogi
Japanese Doll (voice)
Rikako Aikawa
Nobue Kakimoto (voice)
Shinya Fukumatsu
(voice)
Eiji Miyashita
(voice)
Mitsuo Iwata
Yasushi Tsumura (voice)
Shinichiro Ohta
(voice)
Akiko Kawase
(voice)
Anri Katsu
(voice)
Kozo Mito
(voice)
Katsunori Kobayashi
(voice)
Seiko Ueda
(voice)
Crew
- Director
- Satoshi Kon
- Writers
- Satoshi Kon,Seishi Minakami
- Producers
- Masao Takiyama,Jungo Maruta,Jungo Maruta
- Cinematography
- Michiya Kato
- Composer
- Susumu Hirasawa
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User Reviews from TMDB
The Movie Diorama
January 16, 2020
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 legitimacy for their existence. In psychology, dreams are a method for interrogating the mentality of its subject. Recurring nightmares could be a sign of stress-induced anxiety, fear or mental disorders. The…
Alunauwie
January 1, 2026
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 buried trauma, guilt, and ego within each character. Ultimately, it presents dreams not as an escape, but as a mirror that forces humanity to confront what it hides deepest within. Read the full re…