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Paprika

Paprika

7.8/ 10

TMDB Rating

2,808

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2006

Release Year

90 min

Runtime

Science Fiction
Thriller
Animation

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.

Keywords

research
japan
dreams
based on novel or book
procession
psychoanalysis
mad scientist
dream girl
parallel world
adult animation
dream world
anime
avant garde
witty
vibrant

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Reviews(2)

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The Movie Diorama

The Movie Diorama

@themoviediorama

January 16, 2020

8
8/10

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

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Alunauwie

January 1, 2026

8
8/10

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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