Product Description

A group of scientists invents a device that allows people to enter others' dreams, but when the machine is stolen, a scientist must find it. Bonuses: featurettes; BD also has storyboards, animatics, photo galleries.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8619 in DVD
• Brand: HAYASHIBARA,MEGUMI
• Released on: 2007-11-27
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• ESRB Rating: Teen
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: AC-3, Animated, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Original language: Japanese, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Cantonese, Mandarin Chinese, Thai
• Subtitled in: Korean
• Dubbed in: Cantonese, Chinese, English, French, Portuguese, Spanish
• Dimensions: .20 pounds
• Running time: 90 minutes

Features

• Condition: New
• Format: Blu-ray
• AC-3; Animated; Dolby; Dubbed; Subtitled; Widescreen

Amazon.com
Based on a novel by the noted Japanese science fiction writer Yasutaka Tsutui, the brilliant and unsettling feature Paprika continues director Satoshi Kon's exploration of the disturbingly permeable boundaries between dreams and reality. Techno-geek Kosaku Tokita invented the DC Mini to allow therapists to enter a patient's dreams and explore his unconscious, but an evil cabal uses the Mini to create a mass nightmare that causes multiple suicides. Psychotherapist Atsuko Chiba uses her alter-identity, "dream detective" Paprika, to intervene. Entering the nightmare, she witness a bizarre parade of appliances, toys, and kitsch objects: All of her intelligence and imagination are needed to escape this nightmare and its perpetrators. As he did in Millennium Actress and Paranoia Agent, Kon effortlessly carries the audience between reality and fantasy, confirming his reputation as one of the most talented and interesting directors working in animation today. (Rated R: violence, violence against women, grotesque imagery, alcohol and tobacco use) --Charles Solomon