Paprika
This is your brain on anime.
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Cast & Crew
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
Jan 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 …
Alunauwie
Jan 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 characte…
