Dreams are the last place the slumbering sitting ducks in Satoshi Kon's surreal, animated psychological thriller want to be after someone nasty steals an experimental device that opens a door into other people's subconscious ramblings.
By day, prim, buttoned-down Dr. Atsuko Chiba (voice of Megumi Hayashibara) is an ordinary psychiatrist, one of many affiliated with a bright, well-funded institute for mental therapy and research. But by night she's Paprika, a fearless gamine who roots around her patients' dreams for clues about their fears and neuroses, courtesy of an experimental device called the DC-Mini. The trouble begins when one of the four prototypes o...
Released:
2006
Rated:
R
Length:
90 mins