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PAPRIKA
JAPAN, 2006, 90 MIN, RATED R
DIRECTED BY SATOSHI KON
In Japanese with English subtitles
Southeast Premiere

This is your brain on anime! Acclaimed director Satoshi Kon (Tokyo Godfathers, Perfect Blue) returns with this mind-blowing new animated "dream noir" that plays like a head-on collision between Hello Kitty and Philip K. Dick. Based on a popular novel by Yasutaka Tsutsui, the story centers on a prototype gadget called the DC-MINI that allows therapists to enter their patients' dreams. When it's stolen and all hell breaks loose, only one woman (nicknamed "Paprika") can stop it. As its characters shuttle from dream to dream and nightmare to nightmare, Paprika becomes a thrilling tour-de-force of visual invention where every frame seems packed with imagination. Bursting with ideas about Japanese repression, multiple identities, collective dreams, and the dark side of his countrymen's love of Cute, this delightful work echoes landmarks of the genre, such as David Cronenberg's eXistenZ, Kathryn Bigelow's Strange Days, and the seminal A.I. drama Ghost in the Shell.