Paprika (2006 film)

Paprika Japanese , Hepburn Papurika? is a 2006 Japanese animated film cowritten and directed by Satoshi Kon, based on Yasutaka Tsutsuis 1993 novel of the same name, about a research psychologist who uses a device that permits therapists to help patients by entering their dreams. It is Kons fourth and final feature film before his death in 2010.

In the near future, a revolutionary new psychotherapy treatment called dream therapy has been invented. A device called the DC Mini allows the user to view peoples dreams. The head of the team working on this treatment, Doctor Atsuko Chiba, begins using the machine illegally to help psychiatric patients outside the research facility, using her alterego Paprika, a sentient persona that she assumes in the dream world.Paprika counsels Detective Toshimi Konakawa, who is plagued by a recurring dream. Its incompleteness is a great source of anxiety for him. At the end of the session, she gives Konakawa a card with a name of a website on it. This type of counselling session is not officially sanctioned, so Chiba, her associates and Konakawa must be cautious that word does not leak out regarding the nature of the DC Mini and the existence of Paprika. Chibas closest ally is Doctor Ksaku Tokita, a genius manchild and the inventor of the DC Mini. Because they are unfinished, the DC Minis lack access restrictions, allowing anyone to enter another persons dreams, which poses grave consequences when they are stolen. Almost immediately, the chief of the department, Doctor Toratar Shima, goes on a nonsensical tirade and jumps through a window, nearly killing himself. ........

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