The story started with a dream, as it ends, we see that the dreams belongs to a Detective named Konakawa, and a girl named Paprika was helping him in his dream, Paprika can joined the Detective in his dream and recorded it with the help of the device named DC Mini.
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As Paprika is travelling to some unknown destination we see that she changes, and we see Doctor Atsuko riding her car and going to work. As she reached the elevator and the door opens a big fat guy was stuck there and asked for her help, also warning her that the DC Mini was stolen.
She contacted their Chief to tell him about the DC Mini being stolen and their worst fear is, it is an inside job.
Who stole the DC Mini? And why?
Released on 2006 by Sony Pictures
Directed by Satoshi Kon
Animated by MadHouse Studio
Won Best Feature Length Theatrical Anime Award at the 6th annual Tokyo International Anime Fair.
Soundtrack listing is available at wikipedia.org
Lyrics for:
Byakkoya no Musume - english and romanji
Pareedo - romanji and Kanji, english
Official site is at sony.
Observation:
This is again another film on the possibilities of dreams and what's the future for it. Looking for evidence in our dreams for the possible answer which is linked to our reality, and implanting dreams, to either help or destroy an individual.
What is also fascinating about this anime is, the story was very well written that even you get confuse if the characters are in reality or dream state. You can't hardly tell the two apart.
Some say that the American movie Inception would have gotten the idea from this anime. For me, it could be a possibility.
