Paprika (2006)

Directed by Satoshi Kon · Cinematography by Michiya Kato

R90 min60 frames

AnimationScience FictionThriller

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What is Paprika about?

When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patient's dreams is stolen, all hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist can stop it and recover it before damage is done: Paprika.

Paprika is a 2006 Japanese animated surrealist science fiction psychological thriller film directed by Satoshi Kon, who co-wrote the screenplay with Seishi Minakami.. It is based on the 1993 novel by Yasutaka Tsutsui. The Japanese voice cast stars Megumi Hayashibara, Tōru Emori, Katsunosuke Hori, Tōru Furuya, Akio Otsuka, Koichi Yamadera, and Hideyuki Tanaka. The film follows a battle between an unknown "dream terrorist" who causes nightmares by stealing a device that allows others to share their dreams, the research psychologist Dr. Atsuko Chiba, and a personality named Paprika—a dream detective who shares Atsuko's mind.

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What does the cinematography of Paprika look like?

Sampled across 60 frames, the coverage of Paprika leans on medium shots (37% of the sample) and wide compositions (33%). Cinematographer Michiya Kato keeps 52% of it in naturalistic light. Night and dusk account for 42% of the frames. Deep focus keeps foreground and background readable at once in 85% of the frames.

What is the color palette of Paprika?

The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Paprika (2006) are #302c2a, #0e100f, #f3efd3, #f5f5ed, #4b4746, #324935 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.

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