Paprika (2006): trivia & fun facts

Fun facts

• The budget was approximately 300 million yen, and the production took about two and a half years from planning to completion.
• Paprika premiered on 2 September 2006, at the 63rd Venice Film Festival.
• One reason was that the novel Paprika was too voluminous to fit into a single film, and the other reason was that over ten years had already passed since the novel was published, and many creators had already embodied the ideas inspired by Paprika in various media, not just in films.
• His co-writer Seishi Minakami had previously written for Kon's TV series Paranoia Agent (2004), while the film's character design and animation director was Masashi Ando, and the music was composed by Kon's frequent collaborator Susumu Hirasawa.
• Additionally, it was shown at the 39th International Film Festival in Auckland, New Zealand, on 22 July 2007, and was shown as the festival travelled around New Zealand.
• In other territories, the film grossed $62,648 in Singapore, Italy and South Korea as of 2007, for an overseas total of $944,915 outside of Japan.
• The film had its worldwide premiere at the 63rd Venice International Film Festival, where it competed for the Golden Lion.
• Paprika was shown at the 2007 National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, D.C., as the closing film of the Anime Marathon at the Freer Gallery of the Smithsonian, and at the 2007 Greater Philadelphia Cherry Blossom Festival.
• science fiction psychological thriller film directed by Satoshi Kon, who co-wrote the screenplay with Seishi Minakami..
• Megumi Hayashibara as Dr. Atsuko Chiba (千葉 敦子博士, Chiba Atsuko-hakase), an attractive and modest psychiatrist and researcher at the Institute for Psychiatric Research.
• Tōru Furuya as Dr. Kōsaku Tokita (時田 浩作博士, Tokita Kōsaku-hakase), the childish and obese inventor of the DC Mini.
• Katsunosuke Hori as Dr. Toratarō Shima (島 寅太郎博士, Shima Toratarō-hakase), the cheerful and friendly chief of staff at the Institute for Psychiatric Research and an ally of Chiba.
• Akio Otsuka as Detective Toshimi Konakawa (粉川 利美刑事, Konakawa Toshimi-keiji), a friend of Shima and a client of Paprika.
• Later, when he met with the author, Yasutaka Tsutsui, and received his permission to make the film, Kon stated that he felt as if he had realized what he had always imagined.

Source: Wikipedia

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