Paprika (anime)
| Anime movie | |
|---|---|
| title | paprika |
| Original title | パ プ リ カ |
| transcription | Paprika |
| Country of production |
 Japan
|
| original language | Japanese |
| Publishing year | 2006 |
| Studio | Madhouse |
| length | 87 minutes |
| genre | Science fiction |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Satoshi Kon |
| idea | Yasutaka Tsutsui |
| script | Satoshi Kon, Seishi Minakami |
| production |
Jungo Maruta , Masao Takiyama |
| music | Susumu Hirasawa |
Paprika ( Japanese パ プ リ カ , Papurika ) is a 2006 anime film based on Yasutaka Tsutsui 's novel of the same name. Satoshi Kon directed the science fiction film and co-wrote the script with Seishi Minakami . The editing was done by Takeshi Seyama . Madhouse was responsible for the animation and Sony Pictures Classics produced and distributed the film.
Paprika is about a psychotherapist who is involved in the development of a new type of device that enables the precise examination of dreams. The device is stolen and misused, mixing reality and dream.
action
In the near future, the obese Kōsaku Tokita has developed a revolutionary psychotherapeutic treatment method. This is called the DC Mini and is a device that enables the therapist to record and analyze the patient's dreams as a film. It is also possible for the practitioner to interact with the patient's dreams and to direct them in certain directions. Atsuko Chiba is one of the developers of this device. Although the DC Mini is not yet fully developed, Chiba is already illegally using the device to help her patients. She acts under the alter ego "paprika", which always appears when Chiba dreams. “Paprika” is livelier and more spontaneous than the serious-looking Chiba.
A prototype of the DC Mini is stolen. The unknown thief uses it to manipulate people's subconscious. As more and more people are being manipulated, Chiba sets out as a “paprika” to find the thief and to confront him. Tokita's assistant is also manipulated, as is her boss Toratarō Shima, the head of DC Mini development. “Paprika” can save her boss, however, whereupon Seijirō Inui, the chairman of the laboratory in which the DC Mini was developed, completely forbids the use of the DC Minis .
Together with the investigator Toshimi Konakawa, Chiba, Tokita and Shima go in search of the thief. They discover that Tokita's assistant and friend Himuro has been manipulated. Tokita wants to save Himuro alone and is manipulated herself in the process. Dream and reality increasingly begin to mix as Konakawa, Tokita, and the boss continue their search.
It turns out that the chairman of the development lab himself is the thief of the DC Minis and the manipulator. But he is not alone in this and receives support from the depressed employee Morio Osanai. He wants to bring the whole world into his dream world in order to have it there completely under his control. The chairman begins to merge the real and dream worlds. Chiba (or "paprika") meets the manipulated Tokita there. Chiba confesses her secret affection to Tokita and succeeds in awakening Tokita from his dream.
When the chairman turns into a huge, dark figure, Chiba faces him. She eats his dream world and himself, thereby restoring order. As a side effect, the treatment from Konakawa, who often stood by her side, was also successful. He comes to realize that fiction can be the origin of reality. Chiba informs him that she and Tokita are getting married. Konakawa goes to a movie theater for the first time in a long time and watches the movie The Dreaming Children .
Emergence
Satoshi Kon had the idea to make a film in 1998 after he had finished his film Perfect Blue . Because the production company with which he wanted to implement the project at the time became insolvent, he initially devoted himself to other projects. In 2003, Yasutaka Tsutsui, the novel's writer, met with Kon to get him to direct an anime adaptation of his novel. Kon agreed, and while his TV series Paranoia Agent (2004) was still being produced, Kon and the animation studio Madhouse began preparing for paprika .
For Paprika , Satoshi Kon also used 3D animations for the first time in addition to his hand-drawn cartoon animations. The music was composed by Susumu Hirasawa , who was already involved as a composer in Kon's works Millennium Actress and Paranoia Agent .
Publications
The film premiered on September 2, 2006 as part of the 63rd Venice International Film Festival . This was followed by performances at other film festivals, including the Tokyo International Film Festival .
The film was released in Japanese cinemas on October 21, 2006. It was released on DVD in Japan in May 2007, and the German edition followed on August 23, 2007.
The DVD has a total of three audio tracks (German, English, Japanese) in Dolby Digital 5.1 and subtitles in 22 languages. In addition, audio commentary by the director is also included.
synchronization
The film was set to music at Scalamedia in Munich. Peter Woratz wrote the dialogue book and directed the dialogue.
| role | Japanese speaker ( seiyū ) | German speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Atsuko "paprika" Chiba | Megumi Hayashibara | Veronika Neugebauer |
| Toshimi Konakawa | Akio Ōtsuka | Gudo Hoegel |
| Toratarō Shima | Katsunosuke Hori | Horst Sachtleben |
| Kosaku Tokita | Tōru Furuya | Martin Halm |
| Morio Osanai | Kōichi Yamadera | Philipp Brammer |
| Seijirō Inui | Tōru Emori | Manfred Erdmann |
| Hajime Himuro | Daisuke Sakaguchi | Kai Taschner |
reception
The New York Times wrote that the film was a "mind-twisting, eye-tickling miracle": "In Paprika , a great tumult of future shock ideas and intelligently animated symbolism, the gates of perception never close."
In Die Welt , Peter Zander described the film as a wild mixture of “Nippon G [h] ibli look and MTV aesthetics” .
In the cinema world of the Children's and Youth Film Center it says:
“[Satoshi Kon] lets his leading actress stagger behind the mirrors of consciousness as Alice in Wonderland , in order to end the expedition through monstrous fairy tale worlds again with the omnipotent fantasy and the well-known motives of redemption. His odyssey through the subconscious and through our media world, peppered with humor, irony and many film quotes, is an intelligent, thrilling and brightly colored question of identity - even if not all threads are unraveled, not all symbols are dissolved. Or maybe because of that. "
Web links
- Paprika in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official Sony Pictures Entertainment website for the film (Japanese, requires Flash)
- Interview with Satoshi Kon about peppers at Midnight Eye
Individual evidence
- ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Movies | Paprika. Retrieved March 27, 2018 .
- ↑ Manohla Dargis: In a Crowded Anime Dreamscape, a Mysterious Pixie . In: The New York Times . May 25, 2007 (English, nytimes.com ).
- ↑ Peter Zander: Hamlet can hit with the edge of his hand. In: The world . September 4, 2006 ( welt.de ).
- ↑ PAPRIKA . Cinema world. Publisher: Children's and Youth Film Center on behalf of the BMFSFJ .