Following the success of Hayao Miyazaki’s film month last year, over the course of a month, TPD will be screening some of the most outstanding Japanese anime films in the last decades. Up first is Satoshi Kon’s “PAPRIKA”. Film notes
PAPRIKA • Japan • 2006
R | 90′ | Animation • Adventure • Crime
Director: Satoshi Kon
PAPRIKA (Japanese: パプリカ) is a 2006 Japanese science-fiction anime film co-written and directed by Satoshi Kon, based on Yasutaka Tsutsui’s 1993 novel of the same name, telling a story about a research psychologist who uses a device that permits therapists to help patients by entering their dreams.
It is Kon’s fourth and final feature film before his death in 2010. The film stars the voices of Megumi Hayashibara, Tōru Emori, Katsunosuke Hori, Tōru Furuya, Akio Ōtsuka, Kōichi Yamadera, and Hideyuki Tanaka.
Kon and Seishi Minakami wrote the script, and Japanese animation studio Madhouse animated and produced the film alongside Sony Pictures Entertainment Japan, which distributed it in Japan. The score was composed by Susumu Hirasawa.
Language: Japanese with Vietnamese subtitles
“Paprika” will be screened on Fri 17 Mar 2017, 7.30 pm at TPD, 51 Tran Hung Dao Str (4th floor), Hanoi.