Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 90 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
- In Japanese — subtitles on.
The story
Dr. Atsuko Chiba is a research psychologist who uses a device called the DC Mini to enter her patients' dreams, wherein she adopts the alter-ego "Paprika". When the device is stolen, she must stop rogue elements from merging the dream and waking worlds.
- research
- japan
- dreams
- based on novel or book
- procession
- psychoanalysis
- mad scientist
- dream girl
- parallel world
- adult animation
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
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)
- Kumiko Izumi — (voice)
- Eiji Miyashita — (voice)
- Mitsuo Iwata — Yasushi Tsumura (voice)
- Directed
- Satoshi Kon
- Written
- Seishi Minakami, Satoshi Kon
Production
- Rating
- 7.8 / 10 · 2,969 ratings
- Studio
- Madhouse, Sony Pictures
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
