Fans of crime procedurals are finding Flex X Cop to be their new favorite as the Korean drama is hitting big with the masses. Based on the 2015 Russian series titled Silver Spoon, the Disney+ series follows the story of Jin Isoo, an immature rich heir who gets into some trouble and the following circumstances force his hands into joining the police force where he partners up with an intelligent veteran detective Lee Gang-hyun, and together they solve dangerous and complex cases. So, if you love the thrills and comedy of Flex X Cop and want to watch more shows like it then you should check out these similar shows next.
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A rich cop with a seemingly unlimited bank balance and an idealistic cop team up to fight crime, if that sounds familiar to all of Flex X Cop’s fans, then you...
The Millionaire Detective Balance: Unlimited Credit – Fuji TV
A rich cop with a seemingly unlimited bank balance and an idealistic cop team up to fight crime, if that sounds familiar to all of Flex X Cop’s fans, then you...
- 2/28/2024
- by Kulwant Singh
- Cinema Blind
In the career of Nobuhiko Obayashi, his works from the 1980s are certainly some of the most interesting features the director made. Although some of these movies have become somewhat obscure and hard to find for film fans wanting to discover more from Obayashi besides arguably his most popular work today, his 1977 feature “House”. One of the director’s favorite works was “The Girl Who Leapt Through Time”, an adaptation of the novel of the same title by Yasutaka Tsutsui, which also served as the foundation to the 2006 anime directed by Mamoru Hosoda. In his approach to the source material, Obayashi and screenwriter Wataru Kenmotsu highlight the idea of the story being about growth as well as the various irritations when becoming an adult.
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Kazuko Yoshiyama (Tomoyo Harada) is a high-school student living in the city of Onomichi. One day, as she is tasked with cleaning the chemistry lab,...
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- 8/22/2022
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
Some stories seem impossible to translate from the written page to the moving image, but a few brave creatives have taken on the task and created masterpieces. Japanese author Yasutaka Tsutsui's acclaimed 1993 novel "Paprika" is one such story, about a brilliant young psychologist named Chiba who begins experimenting with dream therapy. Chiba and her research partner, Tokita, develop a machine that allows them to not only view the dreams of others but experience them firsthand. When their dream-walking machine is stolen, the two have to figure out how to track him down in the real world while dealing with the repercussions in their dreams. It's mind-bending science fiction that works in part because of the limitless potential of the imagination.
Now, Prime Studios has announced that they will be producing and releasing a live-action series based on the novel, helmed by "Birds of Prey" director Cathy Yan. It's going...
Now, Prime Studios has announced that they will be producing and releasing a live-action series based on the novel, helmed by "Birds of Prey" director Cathy Yan. It's going...
- 8/22/2022
- by Danielle Ryan
- Slash Film
What if there was a device that allowed the user to enter other people's dreams? What if one of the devices was stolen by someone who could implant ideas in people's minds to control them? What kind of story could come out of this concept?
If your first thought is Christopher Nolan's "Inception," then congratulations, you played yourself. That film became the rare example of a movie that becomes a shorthand term for its premise — entering people's dreams. Still, it pales in comparison to the film it so blatantly rips off, Satoshi Kon's "Paprika," an anime movie adapted from Yasutaka Tsutsui's 1993 novel of the same name.
That novel was almost adapted to live-action over a decade ago by the late, great Wolfgang Petersen, but now Deadline reports that Tsutsui's "Paprika" is getting a second chance at becoming a live-action project, on the small screen. Cathy Yan has...
If your first thought is Christopher Nolan's "Inception," then congratulations, you played yourself. That film became the rare example of a movie that becomes a shorthand term for its premise — entering people's dreams. Still, it pales in comparison to the film it so blatantly rips off, Satoshi Kon's "Paprika," an anime movie adapted from Yasutaka Tsutsui's 1993 novel of the same name.
That novel was almost adapted to live-action over a decade ago by the late, great Wolfgang Petersen, but now Deadline reports that Tsutsui's "Paprika" is getting a second chance at becoming a live-action project, on the small screen. Cathy Yan has...
- 8/22/2022
- by Rafael Motamayor
- Slash Film
Cathy Yan is at a good place in her career. She’s got the acclaimed indie, “Dead Pigs.” She’s ventured out and directed a superhero film, “Birds of Prey.” And she even has earned herself an Emmy nomination for her work directing on the newest season of “Succession.” Now, it appears she’s found her next big project, a live-action adaptation of the acclaimed novel-turned-anime “Paprika.”
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According to Deadline, Cathy Yan is set to executive produce and direct a live-action adaptation of “Paprika.” The source material is the 1993 sci-fi novel of the same name by author Yasutaka Tsutsui.
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According to Deadline, Cathy Yan is set to executive produce and direct a live-action adaptation of “Paprika.” The source material is the 1993 sci-fi novel of the same name by author Yasutaka Tsutsui.
Continue reading ‘Paprika’: Cathy Yan To Produce & Direct A Live-Action Series Adaptation For Amazon at The Playlist.
- 8/22/2022
- by Charles Barfield
- The Playlist
If this is a dream, please, don’t wake me up. Deadline reports that Cathy Yan is developing a live-action series inspired by Yasutaka Tsutsui’s mind-bending novel Paprika. The project is happening at Amazon Studios and Hivemind, with Yan directing and executive producing.
According to the novel’s official description, Paprika presents an imaginative narrative about a psychiatric institute that develops technology to invade people’s dreams.
“When prototype models of a dream-invading device go missing at the Institute for Psychiatric Research, it transpires that someone is using them to drive people insane. Threatened personally and professionally, brilliant psychotherapist Atsuko Chiba has to journey into the world of fantasy to fight her mysterious opponents. As she delves deeper into the imagination, the borderline between dream and reality becomes increasingly blurred, and nightmares begin to leak into the everyday realm. The scene is set for a final showdown between the dream detective and her enemies,...
According to the novel’s official description, Paprika presents an imaginative narrative about a psychiatric institute that develops technology to invade people’s dreams.
“When prototype models of a dream-invading device go missing at the Institute for Psychiatric Research, it transpires that someone is using them to drive people insane. Threatened personally and professionally, brilliant psychotherapist Atsuko Chiba has to journey into the world of fantasy to fight her mysterious opponents. As she delves deeper into the imagination, the borderline between dream and reality becomes increasingly blurred, and nightmares begin to leak into the everyday realm. The scene is set for a final showdown between the dream detective and her enemies,...
- 8/22/2022
- by Steve Seigh
- JoBlo.com
Exclusive: Cathy Yan will executive produce and direct the live-action series Paprika, based on the Yasutaka Tsutsui novel of the same name, for Amazon Studios and Hivemind, Deadline has learned.
Amazon declined comment.
Paprika is a character-driven sci-fi series with a mind-bending narrative centering around a technology that allows us to invade people’s dreams.
Along with Yan, her producing partner Ash Sarohia will also executive produce under their Rewild banner, as well as Masi Oka, and Hivemind’s Jason F. Brown.
Yan recently received her first Emmy nomination for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series for her episode of Succession, “The Disruption.” The episode marked her first time directing for a series.
Yan made a splash in 2020 as the director of Birds of Prey for Warner Bros and LuckyChap Entertainment centering on the DC Comic character Harley Quinn and the titular superhero team. The...
Amazon declined comment.
Paprika is a character-driven sci-fi series with a mind-bending narrative centering around a technology that allows us to invade people’s dreams.
Along with Yan, her producing partner Ash Sarohia will also executive produce under their Rewild banner, as well as Masi Oka, and Hivemind’s Jason F. Brown.
Yan recently received her first Emmy nomination for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series for her episode of Succession, “The Disruption.” The episode marked her first time directing for a series.
Yan made a splash in 2020 as the director of Birds of Prey for Warner Bros and LuckyChap Entertainment centering on the DC Comic character Harley Quinn and the titular superhero team. The...
- 8/22/2022
- by Rosy Cordero
- Deadline Film + TV
The live-action short film from writers and directors Léo Berne and Raphaël Rodriguez, “Censor of Dreams” (also known as “Le Censeur des Rêves”) had its world premiere at the 2021 Warsaw Film Festival and focuses on a team of people who try to block their host’s painful dreams and memories. After winning the Academy Award-qualifying Grand Prize at the aforenamed festival, the Iconoclast-produced film has now been shortlisted for the 2022 Oscars. In our exclusive video (watch above), Berne and Rodriguez shed light on the process of making the well-known titular theory literal, of trimming dialogue from their original screenplay, and of creating fiction versus directing music videos and commercials.
See 2022 Oscars shortlists in 10 categories: International Feature Film, Documentary Feature, Original Song, Score …
Inspired by the book “Yume no ken’estukan” by Japanese author Yasutaka Tsutsui, “Censor of Dreams” takes a brief glimpse into the life of a man...
See 2022 Oscars shortlists in 10 categories: International Feature Film, Documentary Feature, Original Song, Score …
Inspired by the book “Yume no ken’estukan” by Japanese author Yasutaka Tsutsui, “Censor of Dreams” takes a brief glimpse into the life of a man...
- 1/13/2022
- by Luca Giliberti
- Gold Derby
“Milk” director Gus Van Sant has boarded Academy Award contender “Censor Of Dreams” as an executive producer.
The live action short, which has been shortlisted for an Academy Award, is directed by Léo Berne (Rihanna’s “Bitch Better Have My Money”) and Raphaël Rodriguez and stars Damien Bonnard (“Les Misérables”) and Alexis Rodney (“Guardians of the Galaxy”).
The 17-minute film won the Oscars-qualifying Grand Prix at the Warsaw Film Festival.
Inspired by Yasutaka Tsutsui’s book “Yume no ken’estukan” (“The Censor of Dreams”), the film tells the story of a mysterious “Censor” who moulds memories into dreams.
“Dreams, like cinema, are inspired fictions that have something to tell us,” said Berne and Rodriguez. “‘Censor of Dreams’ was built on an image that touches us in particular, and that carries as much joy as sorrow, the dream visit of a loved one who has disappeared.”
Berne and Rodriguez have previously...
The live action short, which has been shortlisted for an Academy Award, is directed by Léo Berne (Rihanna’s “Bitch Better Have My Money”) and Raphaël Rodriguez and stars Damien Bonnard (“Les Misérables”) and Alexis Rodney (“Guardians of the Galaxy”).
The 17-minute film won the Oscars-qualifying Grand Prix at the Warsaw Film Festival.
Inspired by Yasutaka Tsutsui’s book “Yume no ken’estukan” (“The Censor of Dreams”), the film tells the story of a mysterious “Censor” who moulds memories into dreams.
“Dreams, like cinema, are inspired fictions that have something to tell us,” said Berne and Rodriguez. “‘Censor of Dreams’ was built on an image that touches us in particular, and that carries as much joy as sorrow, the dream visit of a loved one who has disappeared.”
Berne and Rodriguez have previously...
- 1/11/2022
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
Shintaro Kago is a Japanese manga artist, independent filmmaker and toy maker. He is a pioneer of the ero guro genre whose distinct style of distorting reality, deforming the human body and turning the ordinary into the absurd has given him a rather significant cult following also in the West.
Panos Kotzathanasis and Adam Symchuk questioned him about his influences, adapting his work into animated shorts, his work on the releases of Midori Implus, ero guro art, “Princess of The Never Ending Castle” and his future projects.
When and why did you first start making art? What are your most important influences?
I started back when I was a high school student. These would be: Katsuhiro Otomo, Fujiko F. Fujio, Eric Idle, Yasutaka Tsutsui.
Is there a difference between the way you draw manga and covers?
Cover illustration requires more attention than drawing manga.
How did you become interested in...
Panos Kotzathanasis and Adam Symchuk questioned him about his influences, adapting his work into animated shorts, his work on the releases of Midori Implus, ero guro art, “Princess of The Never Ending Castle” and his future projects.
When and why did you first start making art? What are your most important influences?
I started back when I was a high school student. These would be: Katsuhiro Otomo, Fujiko F. Fujio, Eric Idle, Yasutaka Tsutsui.
Is there a difference between the way you draw manga and covers?
Cover illustration requires more attention than drawing manga.
How did you become interested in...
- 3/26/2021
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Exploring the tenuous relationship between idol and fan, Yoshikazu Takeuchi’s “Perfect Blue: Complete Metamorphosis” follows the idol known as Mima as she begins to shed the image of innocence, in a bid to further her career. Existing in opposition to Mima’s desire to transcend her past is a nameless fan whose dangerous obsession leads to anger as he perceives the change as the work of outside sources. The man’s decline and drive to protect his ‘muse’ leads him down a path of murder, as he decides he must purify himself and others to match that sainthood he projects on the singer. As Mima’s career begins to take off because of her choices, the odd letters from the fanatic cause a scare but don’t prepare her for the violent clash with her biggest fan.
It is unlikely that many readers will be approaching...
It is unlikely that many readers will be approaching...
- 5/29/2020
- by Adam Symchuk
- AsianMoviePulse
Straying far away from the techno-industrial style of the two Tetsuo, Shinya Tsukamoto based this particular film on the homonymous Edogawa Rampo story that takes place in the Meiji era, in order to present a mystery/thriller/costume drama combination, which, once again though, thrives on visual and contextual deliriousness.
The film revolves around Yukio Daitokuji, a famous doctor who was decorated for his services during the war, and has now succeeded his father in the practice, amassing fame for both his past deeds and his present. Yukio seems to live a very happy life in the family mansion, with his parents and his beautiful wife, Rin. However, not everything is idyllic in his life. His parents disapprove of his wedding, since Rin is an amnesiac who Yukio found in the banks of a nearby river and took in, and no one knows anything about her past.
The film revolves around Yukio Daitokuji, a famous doctor who was decorated for his services during the war, and has now succeeded his father in the practice, amassing fame for both his past deeds and his present. Yukio seems to live a very happy life in the family mansion, with his parents and his beautiful wife, Rin. However, not everything is idyllic in his life. His parents disapprove of his wedding, since Rin is an amnesiac who Yukio found in the banks of a nearby river and took in, and no one knows anything about her past.
- 1/30/2020
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Yasutaka Tsutsui is quite well known (either you realize it or not), particularly for two of his works that were made into internationally successful anime films: “The Girl Who Leapt Through Time” and “Paprika”. For the first book review here in Amp, however, we will deal with another of his novels, “Hell” where the surrealism and the satire, two of his central characteristics, are in full bloom.
The what and how people from different cultures perceive hell as a concept has been always a crucial one, and Tsutsui presents his own quite eloquently, through the words of a character in the book. “It’s just a place without God. The Japanese don’t believe in God in the first place, so what’s the difference between this place and the world of the living?”
Using this idea as base, Tsutsui presents his characters in a hell where people feel no emotion,...
The what and how people from different cultures perceive hell as a concept has been always a crucial one, and Tsutsui presents his own quite eloquently, through the words of a character in the book. “It’s just a place without God. The Japanese don’t believe in God in the first place, so what’s the difference between this place and the world of the living?”
Using this idea as base, Tsutsui presents his characters in a hell where people feel no emotion,...
- 10/16/2019
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
From The Terminator to Back to the Future to Richard Curtis's new film About Time, movies love time travel – but it's strictly for men. Anna Smith wishes she could turn back the clock
Poor Rachel McAdams. Three time-travel movies and not a whiff of the action. First was 2009's The Time Traveller's Wife, in which Eric Bana played a Chicago librarian darting through time while his on-screen wife McAdams plodded on faithfully in the present. Then, two years later, came Midnight in Paris. Owen Wilson got to party in the roaring 1920s every day of his holiday, while oblivious fiancee McAdams went sightseeing. And now Richard Curtis's new film, About Time, sees McAdams stay home as her partner Domhnall Gleeson goes time-travelling in secret, in a bid to change his past and have a better future. This time it's a gift – passed down the male line of the family.
Poor Rachel McAdams. Three time-travel movies and not a whiff of the action. First was 2009's The Time Traveller's Wife, in which Eric Bana played a Chicago librarian darting through time while his on-screen wife McAdams plodded on faithfully in the present. Then, two years later, came Midnight in Paris. Owen Wilson got to party in the roaring 1920s every day of his holiday, while oblivious fiancee McAdams went sightseeing. And now Richard Curtis's new film, About Time, sees McAdams stay home as her partner Domhnall Gleeson goes time-travelling in secret, in a bid to change his past and have a better future. This time it's a gift – passed down the male line of the family.
- 7/31/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
This is a sad bit of news, I've just learned about the passing of Satoshi Kon - an important Japanese anime filmmaker who gave us Millennium Actress, Tokyo Godfathers, and Paprika (from which was the last time we met with the filmmmaker). In honor of the filmmaker and his fans, we are republishing this sit down with Kon originally published May 24th in 2007. ---- Paprika is the latest feature length work from Japanese anime auteur Satoshi Kon (Tokyo Godfathers, Paranoia Agent, Millennium Actress), and adapted from a novel by Japan’s most renowned science fiction author Yasutaka Tsutsui. The plot centers around an experimental invention called the DC Mini, that allows its users to enter another person’s dreams. 29 year old Dr. Atsuko Chiba is a brilliant but conservative research psychotherapist working on the DC Mini project, and also uses the device to moonlight as super heroine Paprika, entering into...
- 8/24/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
From the moment we learned that Christopher Nolan's Inception would deal with a machine that allowed people to enter the dreams of others, anime fans have been comparing it to Satoshi Kon's highly regarded film Paprika. Based on a novel by Yasutaka Tsutsui, Paprika is a story about a research psychologist who can use a machine to enter other people's dreams. Nolan bashers have halfheartedly latched on to the similarities when arguing that the filmmaker is overrated and not particularly original (which is largely a matter of personal opinion ... ), and there are definite similarities between the two tales.
Those common elements are even more noticeable -- and funny -- in this fan-made YouTube trailer for Paprika's Inception. In this clever mash-up, Paprika's images are matched with the Inception soundtrack and voice-over narration. The level of synchronicity between the two is pretty amazing. I've never heard Nolan talk about Paprika,...
Those common elements are even more noticeable -- and funny -- in this fan-made YouTube trailer for Paprika's Inception. In this clever mash-up, Paprika's images are matched with the Inception soundtrack and voice-over narration. The level of synchronicity between the two is pretty amazing. I've never heard Nolan talk about Paprika,...
- 8/2/2010
- by Alison Nastasi
- Cinematical
In an interview with MTV Splash Page, director Wolfgang Petersen talked about his plans for the announced live-action adaptation of Yasutaka Tsutsui’s novel Paprika that Japanese director Satoshi Kon and Studio Madhouse turned into an amazing anime in 2006.
Petersen praises Kon’s adaptation and states that an yet unnamed author is currently working on the adaptation but a screenplay hasn’t been written yet. Unfortunately, he also mentions something that always leaves a bad taste in my mouth when it comes to Hollywood adaptations:
We open it up a little bit more so it’s more accessible for a wide audience, but it comes a little bit sort of “Matrix” feel. [...] Not like Matrix but sort of the size of it all, the scope of it all. So that it becomes more of a film for a mainstream audience.
[via Quiet Earth]...
Petersen praises Kon’s adaptation and states that an yet unnamed author is currently working on the adaptation but a screenplay hasn’t been written yet. Unfortunately, he also mentions something that always leaves a bad taste in my mouth when it comes to Hollywood adaptations:
We open it up a little bit more so it’s more accessible for a wide audience, but it comes a little bit sort of “Matrix” feel. [...] Not like Matrix but sort of the size of it all, the scope of it all. So that it becomes more of a film for a mainstream audience.
[via Quiet Earth]...
- 3/25/2010
- by Ulrik
- Affenheimtheater
Yasutaka Tsutsui's novel Paprika has already been adapted into animation by Satoshi Kon, but back in August of last year it was announced that a live-action feature version would be directed by Wolfgang Peterson. Now Peterson has issued a brief update on the adaptation, and he sounds like he's planning for it to be big, if nothing else. MTV talked to Peterson, who loved the anime telling of the story, and says that he's got a very detailed treatment in hand that, if given the signal to move forward, should generate a script quickly. Peterson says, We open it up a little bit more so it’s more accessible for a wide audience, but it comes a little bit sort of "Matrix" feel. Not like Matrix but sort of the size of it all, the scope of it all. So that it becomes more of a film for a mainstream audience.
- 3/25/2010
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
Wolfgang Petersen proved he had an eye for the fantastic with 1984's "The Neverending Story," but the imagery in the source material for his live-action "Paprika" adaptation may take him into scenes that look more like "Akira" or David Cronenberg's "Scanners." The "Troy" and "Poseidon" director loved "Paprika" as an anime, and the treatment he recently received could become a wide release that he compares to "The Matrix."
"We have a young writer on it, and he just delivered a very specific and detailed treatment that we’re working on," Petersen told MTV News. "And then if that’s a go then he will write the screenplay and that will go very fast because the treatment is already very detailed. So I’m very excited about that. I would say it’s on the fast track."
The "Paprika" story, which originally began as a 1993 novel by Yasutaka Tsutsui, but...
"We have a young writer on it, and he just delivered a very specific and detailed treatment that we’re working on," Petersen told MTV News. "And then if that’s a go then he will write the screenplay and that will go very fast because the treatment is already very detailed. So I’m very excited about that. I would say it’s on the fast track."
The "Paprika" story, which originally began as a 1993 novel by Yasutaka Tsutsui, but...
- 3/25/2010
- by Brian Warmoth
- MTV Splash Page
According to Moviehole, Wolfgang Petersen (yes, “our man in Hollywood”) is developing a live-action film based on Yasutaka Tsutsui’s novel Paprika that director Satoshi Kon already adapted into an anime in 2006. Not a bad idea in my eyes, since the basic theme of the novel (dreams meet reality thanks to technology) could work really well in live-action even though I could imagine that combining reality with the dream world would be much harder (and probably less “real”) using CGI.
But why Wolfgang Petersen? I know that he already did Sci-Fi but the man didn’t produce anything spectacular for at least 20 years…
Here’s the title song The Girl in Byakkoya by Susumu Hirasawa (available for download here) from the 2006 anime:...
But why Wolfgang Petersen? I know that he already did Sci-Fi but the man didn’t produce anything spectacular for at least 20 years…
Here’s the title song The Girl in Byakkoya by Susumu Hirasawa (available for download here) from the 2006 anime:...
- 8/11/2009
- by Ulrik
- Affenheimtheater
Previously adapted into a truly splendid feature by anime master Satoshi Kon, Yasutaka Tsutsui's serialized novel Paprika seems set for the big screen again. This time round, we can expect a live action adaptation by Wolfgang Peterson, the perpetrator of Air Force One and Outbreak. The novel's story is a chase mystery revolving around a new technology that allows people to enter one another's dreams, so there's little wonder that Moviehole (via Firstshowing) invoke the director's NeverEnding Story in their rumor-starting piece. What I don't quite get is their assertion that this project would be Petersen "ostensibly out to court the youngsters again." I guess they don't really know the project at all. Is psychotherapy and psychosexual nightmare manipulation typically the stuff of kiddie fare? Kon's film is definitely an adult picture. Let's not get tangled up in knots over Petersen but instead focus on the source material. There...
- 8/11/2009
- by Brendon Connelly
- Slash Film
Wolfgang Petersen has made quite a name for himself by having such a cool name. I mean, come on, the dude.s name is Wolfgang. A Wolfgang sounds like something Twilight needs more of (think: characters from Stand and Deliver, but werewolves). Ever since making one of the greatest children.s. stories of all time (The Neverending Story), it's been all downhill for Peterson. Maybe that means he should get back into kids movies, but instead he's adapting anime. Moviehole reports that Petersen will be adapting Yasutaka Tsutsui.s Paprika, a novel about a female therapist who must find a stolen machine that allows one enter someone.s dreams. The book has already been adapted as an anime once, back in 2006. This has the potential to be a pretty cool thriller, and all Wolfgang needs to do is get a decent special effects department to handle some sweet dream sequences.
- 8/11/2009
- cinemablend.com
Where has he been hiding? Wolfgang Petersen, the other German action movie director (not Roland Emmerich), hasn't directed anything since Poseidon back in 2006. He's attached to an alien movie called Uprising at Sony, but there hasn't been any movement on that for a while (as far as I know). Moviehole is reporting (without many details at all) that Petersen is attached to direct a live-action version of Yasutaka Tsutsui's Japanese novel Paprika. Anime enthusiasts may remember that an anime version of the book was produced in 2006. But a big anime remake just doesn't seem like something Wolfgang would do? Paprika is about a machine that allows therapists to enter their patient's dreams. When the machine is stolen, all hell breaks loose, and only a young female therapist can stop it: Paprika. Apparently it is a very trippy anime (watch the trailer) because it spends so much time in dreams.
- 8/11/2009
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Wolfgang Peterson, who directed The NeverEnding Story in 1984, is revisiting the fantasy genre. However, the results might be a little spicier this time.
Moviehole reports the German filmmaker, who has also helmed action-dramas like Das Boot and Air Force One, is developing a live-action adaptation of Paprika, based on a 1993 novel by Yasutaka Tsutsui. Originally serialized in Marie Claire, Paprika concerns an experimental machine that allows therapists to enter the dreams of their patients. When several prototypes are stolen, it’s up to a young therapist, Paprika, to stop a series of murders by entering the dream world herself.
If the title sounds familiar, you might have picked up one of several manga adaptations, or seen the animated film of the same name, which was released by Sony in 2006. The movie, directed by Satoshi Kon, has been praised for its visual style and integration of 2-D and 3-D animation.
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Moviehole reports the German filmmaker, who has also helmed action-dramas like Das Boot and Air Force One, is developing a live-action adaptation of Paprika, based on a 1993 novel by Yasutaka Tsutsui. Originally serialized in Marie Claire, Paprika concerns an experimental machine that allows therapists to enter the dreams of their patients. When several prototypes are stolen, it’s up to a young therapist, Paprika, to stop a series of murders by entering the dream world herself.
If the title sounds familiar, you might have picked up one of several manga adaptations, or seen the animated film of the same name, which was released by Sony in 2006. The movie, directed by Satoshi Kon, has been praised for its visual style and integration of 2-D and 3-D animation.
No...
- 8/11/2009
- CinemaSpy
We’re big fans of Satoshi Kon’s animated film Paprika and today we have found reason to rejoice! The 1993 novel that this animated wonder was based on by author Yasutaka Tsutsui has been translated into English and will be available through Alma Books in the UK this April.
When prototype models of a device for entering into patients dreams go missing at the Institute for Psychiatric Research, it transpires that someone is using them to manipulate people s dreams and send them insane. Threatened both personally and professionally, brilliant psychotherapist Atsuko Chiba has to journey into the world of fantasy to fight her mysterious opponents. As she delves ever deeper into the imagination, the borderline between dream and reality becomes increasingly blurred, and nightmares begin to leak into the everyday realm. The scene is set for a final showdown between the dream detective and her enemies, with the subconscious as their battleground,...
When prototype models of a device for entering into patients dreams go missing at the Institute for Psychiatric Research, it transpires that someone is using them to manipulate people s dreams and send them insane. Threatened both personally and professionally, brilliant psychotherapist Atsuko Chiba has to journey into the world of fantasy to fight her mysterious opponents. As she delves ever deeper into the imagination, the borderline between dream and reality becomes increasingly blurred, and nightmares begin to leak into the everyday realm. The scene is set for a final showdown between the dream detective and her enemies, with the subconscious as their battleground,...
- 2/6/2009
- by Mack
- Screen Anarchy
Year: 2006
Release date: DVD (R1) Nov. 18th, 2008
Director: Minoru Kawasaki
Writers: Minoru Kawasaki & Masakazu Migita & Yasutaka Tsutsui (novel)
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Amazon link: link
Review by: Kevin Ouellette
Rating: 6 out of 10
Japan has sort of faded into the background of the world consciousness in the past few years. Aside from the typical “crazy Japan” pop culture stories that seem to never get old for some, the western world seems to ignore the existence of this once larger-than-life nation. Gone is the fear of superior Japanese products killing the Us manufacturing sector—we’ve since come to terms with that as an unfortunate inevitability—and gone are the icy relations that existed when old men that still remembered World War II were running our respective countries. All we really have left is a shared military and a mutual fascination with each other’s entertainment industries. So what would happen if...
Release date: DVD (R1) Nov. 18th, 2008
Director: Minoru Kawasaki
Writers: Minoru Kawasaki & Masakazu Migita & Yasutaka Tsutsui (novel)
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Review by: Kevin Ouellette
Rating: 6 out of 10
Japan has sort of faded into the background of the world consciousness in the past few years. Aside from the typical “crazy Japan” pop culture stories that seem to never get old for some, the western world seems to ignore the existence of this once larger-than-life nation. Gone is the fear of superior Japanese products killing the Us manufacturing sector—we’ve since come to terms with that as an unfortunate inevitability—and gone are the icy relations that existed when old men that still remembered World War II were running our respective countries. All we really have left is a shared military and a mutual fascination with each other’s entertainment industries. So what would happen if...
- 11/2/2008
- QuietEarth.us
By Neil Pedley
On offer this week is a veritable gallery of the eclectic and the eccentric as M. Night Shyamalan goes R-rated, Edward Norton goes green, Werner Herzog goes to the Antarctic, and two of Herzog's fellow countrymen go to California to climb a big rock very, very quickly.
"Beauty in Trouble"
Czech director Jan Hrebejk and writer Petr Jarchovský continue their longtime collaborative partnership with this dense ensemble drama loosely inspired by Robert Graves's poem of the same name. This time, the duo who balanced humor with drama in the Oscar-nominated Holocaust-set "Divided We Fall," turn to the devastating series of floods that swept Prague in 2002, and tell the story of Marcela (Anna Geislerová), an overworked mother of two living in squalor. When her ne'er do well husband is taken in by the police, she's courted by a well-to-do businessman (Josef Abrhám) and Marcela is forced to...
On offer this week is a veritable gallery of the eclectic and the eccentric as M. Night Shyamalan goes R-rated, Edward Norton goes green, Werner Herzog goes to the Antarctic, and two of Herzog's fellow countrymen go to California to climb a big rock very, very quickly.
"Beauty in Trouble"
Czech director Jan Hrebejk and writer Petr Jarchovský continue their longtime collaborative partnership with this dense ensemble drama loosely inspired by Robert Graves's poem of the same name. This time, the duo who balanced humor with drama in the Oscar-nominated Holocaust-set "Divided We Fall," turn to the devastating series of floods that swept Prague in 2002, and tell the story of Marcela (Anna Geislerová), an overworked mother of two living in squalor. When her ne'er do well husband is taken in by the police, she's courted by a well-to-do businessman (Josef Abrhám) and Marcela is forced to...
- 6/9/2008
- by Neil Pedley
- ifc.com
- Paprika is the latest feature length work from Japanese anime auteur Satoshi Kon (Tokyo Godfathers, Paranoia Agent, Millennium Actress), and adapted from a novel by Japan’s most renowned science fiction author Yasutaka Tsutsui. The plot centers around an experimental invention called the DC Mini, that allows its users to enter another person’s dreams. 29 year old Dr. Atsuko Chiba is a brilliant but conservative research psychotherapist working on the DC Mini project, and also uses the device to moonlight as super heroine Paprika, entering into her patient’s dreams and helping them resolve anxiety and neurosis.When one of the DC Mini prototypes is stolen, Atsuko is forced into the role of a real-world heroine as her colleagues begin to go mad, haunted by terrifying waking-dreams of a doll torn from the mind of a schizophrenic patient. Someone is wielding the device as a weapon, and setting the
- 5/24/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
TOKYO -- A movie about a time-traveling teenager took home the animation of the year award at the sixth annual Tokyo International Anime Fair on Thursday, while a Canadian production earned the grand prize in the open competition.
"The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" was one of 457 film shorts screened or distributed in Japan that was up for the award. Produced by Tokikake Film Partners, it tells the story of 17-year-old Makoto Konno, who can change events by traveling into the past.
In addition to winning the best film prize, "Time" also won the best director award for Mamoru Hosoda and best original story for Yasutaka Tsutsui, for a tale he wrote 40 years ago. It also earned a screenplay nod for Satoko Okudera, best art direction for Nizou Yamamoto and the character design prize for Yoshiyuki Sadamoto.
"I would like to thank all the people who worked on this title and gave us such great characters, story line and music," Hosoda said in accepting his award.
"The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" was one of 457 film shorts screened or distributed in Japan that was up for the award. Produced by Tokikake Film Partners, it tells the story of 17-year-old Makoto Konno, who can change events by traveling into the past.
In addition to winning the best film prize, "Time" also won the best director award for Mamoru Hosoda and best original story for Yasutaka Tsutsui, for a tale he wrote 40 years ago. It also earned a screenplay nod for Satoko Okudera, best art direction for Nizou Yamamoto and the character design prize for Yoshiyuki Sadamoto.
"I would like to thank all the people who worked on this title and gave us such great characters, story line and music," Hosoda said in accepting his award.
- 3/23/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- Fans of Millenium Actress and Tokyo Godfathers know who Satoshi Kon is and have been waiting a couple of full moons for his latest release. Selected as part of the 63rd Venice International Film Festival the anime opens in New York on May 25, 2007 and Los Angeles on June 1, 2007, before expanding nationwide throughout the summer. Today, Sony Pictures Classics has passed on the one sheet and trailers below.Paprika is from an original story written by Yasutaka Tsutsui and based on the screenplay by Seishi Minakami & Satoshi Kon, Dr. Atsuko Chiba is a genius scientist by day, and a kick-ass dream warrior named Paprika by night. In this psychedelic sci-fi adventure, it will take the skills of both women to save the world...The near future: a revolutionary new psychotherapy treatment called Pt has been invented. A device called the "DC Mini" is able to act as a "dream detective
- 3/12/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
Sony Pictures Entertainment
NEW YORK -- After the outre charms of Tokyo Godfathers, director Satoshi Kon returns to a more conventional anime theme for Paprika. Based on a serialized novel by Yasutaka Tsutsui, the film explores a conflict between technology and humanity by taking viewers inside the muddled dreams of its protagonists. It is an intelligently written piece that only falters during the finale, where Kon sacrifices the film's logic for an explosive ending.
Paprika plays well enough on the big screen, but it probably will do most business on DVD. Visuals often are imaginative but not startling enough to break the ingrained resistance non-Japanese adults feel toward animation. Kudos to the New York Film Festival for presenting this animation on par with its live-action art house dramas. Triumph and Destination Films will release the film in North America in March.
The story centers on a prototype gadget called a DC-MINI, which allows psychologists to enter into their patients' dreams. An unknown villain steals the DC-MINI and uses it to enter people's minds and control them. Dreams start to invade waking time as subconscious moments become confused with conscious ones. Chiba, a young female psychologist on the DC-MINI team, takes on a subconscious alter ego -- named Paprika -- and dives into the dream world to root out the culprit.
This story of useful technology being used in a detrimental way has similarities with the seminal A.I. drama Ghost in the Shell, which confronted the possibility that robots could become conscious. Paprika isn't as fully formed as that film -- its villain is a crude rendition -- but some interesting points are raised along the way. These include an altercation between Chiba and her subconscious alter ego about who really controls whom.
The narrative involves visiting different dreamscapes, and the visual potential of this is exploited well. Some dreams are Miyazaki-like fantasies; others are crazy carnivals. The ending, which replicates the doomed cityscapes that have characterized Japanese sci-fi since Godzilla, is thunderous, but it doesn't jell with the rest of the film's careful exposition.
NEW YORK -- After the outre charms of Tokyo Godfathers, director Satoshi Kon returns to a more conventional anime theme for Paprika. Based on a serialized novel by Yasutaka Tsutsui, the film explores a conflict between technology and humanity by taking viewers inside the muddled dreams of its protagonists. It is an intelligently written piece that only falters during the finale, where Kon sacrifices the film's logic for an explosive ending.
Paprika plays well enough on the big screen, but it probably will do most business on DVD. Visuals often are imaginative but not startling enough to break the ingrained resistance non-Japanese adults feel toward animation. Kudos to the New York Film Festival for presenting this animation on par with its live-action art house dramas. Triumph and Destination Films will release the film in North America in March.
The story centers on a prototype gadget called a DC-MINI, which allows psychologists to enter into their patients' dreams. An unknown villain steals the DC-MINI and uses it to enter people's minds and control them. Dreams start to invade waking time as subconscious moments become confused with conscious ones. Chiba, a young female psychologist on the DC-MINI team, takes on a subconscious alter ego -- named Paprika -- and dives into the dream world to root out the culprit.
This story of useful technology being used in a detrimental way has similarities with the seminal A.I. drama Ghost in the Shell, which confronted the possibility that robots could become conscious. Paprika isn't as fully formed as that film -- its villain is a crude rendition -- but some interesting points are raised along the way. These include an altercation between Chiba and her subconscious alter ego about who really controls whom.
The narrative involves visiting different dreamscapes, and the visual potential of this is exploited well. Some dreams are Miyazaki-like fantasies; others are crazy carnivals. The ending, which replicates the doomed cityscapes that have characterized Japanese sci-fi since Godzilla, is thunderous, but it doesn't jell with the rest of the film's careful exposition.
- 10/10/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NEW YORK -- After the outre charms of "Tokyo Godfathers", director Satoshi Kon returns to a more conventional anime theme for "Paprika". Based on a serialized novel by Yasutaka Tsutsui, the film explores a conflict between technology and humanity by taking viewers inside the muddled dreams of its protagonists. It is an intelligently written piece that only falters during the finale, where Kon sacrifices the film's logic for an explosive ending.
"Paprika" plays well enough on the big screen, but it probably will do most business on DVD. Visuals often are imaginative but not startling enough to break the ingrained resistance non-Japanese adults feel toward animation. Kudos to the New York Film Festival for presenting this animation on par with its live-action art house dramas. Triumph and Destination Films will release the film in North America in March.
The story centers on a prototype gadget called a DC-MINI, which allows psychologists to enter into their patients' dreams. An unknown villain steals the DC-MINI and uses it to enter people's minds and control them. Dreams start to invade waking time as subconscious moments become confused with conscious ones. Chiba, a young female psychologist on the DC-MINI team, takes on a subconscious alter ego -- named Paprika -- and dives into the dream world to root out the culprit.
This story of useful technology being used in a detrimental way has similarities with the seminal A.I. drama "Ghost in the Shell", which confronted the possibility that robots could become conscious. "Paprika" isn't as fully formed as that film -- its villain is a crude rendition -- but some interesting points are raised along the way. These include an altercation between Chiba and her subconscious alter ego about who really controls whom.
The narrative involves visiting different dreamscapes, and the visual potential of this is exploited well. Some dreams are Miyazaki-like fantasies; others are crazy carnivals. The ending, which replicates the doomed cityscapes that have characterized Japanese sci-fi since "Godzilla", is thunderous, but it doesn't jell with the rest of the film's careful exposition.
"Paprika" plays well enough on the big screen, but it probably will do most business on DVD. Visuals often are imaginative but not startling enough to break the ingrained resistance non-Japanese adults feel toward animation. Kudos to the New York Film Festival for presenting this animation on par with its live-action art house dramas. Triumph and Destination Films will release the film in North America in March.
The story centers on a prototype gadget called a DC-MINI, which allows psychologists to enter into their patients' dreams. An unknown villain steals the DC-MINI and uses it to enter people's minds and control them. Dreams start to invade waking time as subconscious moments become confused with conscious ones. Chiba, a young female psychologist on the DC-MINI team, takes on a subconscious alter ego -- named Paprika -- and dives into the dream world to root out the culprit.
This story of useful technology being used in a detrimental way has similarities with the seminal A.I. drama "Ghost in the Shell", which confronted the possibility that robots could become conscious. "Paprika" isn't as fully formed as that film -- its villain is a crude rendition -- but some interesting points are raised along the way. These include an altercation between Chiba and her subconscious alter ego about who really controls whom.
The narrative involves visiting different dreamscapes, and the visual potential of this is exploited well. Some dreams are Miyazaki-like fantasies; others are crazy carnivals. The ending, which replicates the doomed cityscapes that have characterized Japanese sci-fi since "Godzilla", is thunderous, but it doesn't jell with the rest of the film's careful exposition.
- 10/10/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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