Paprika

But I pushed for a kind of repod of My Neighbor Totoro would have been the kind of perfect under 90 minute movie.

But Paprika was another one, which doesn't feel like it's under 90 minutes, but it is because it's so wild and kind of.

so inspirational.

It opens with this giant kind of crowd scene and Nolan may have borrowed a few frames from that for Inception, I think.

I'd love to see more of your work in cinemas.

We actually have one of your mural, which you created for another picture house in Chester, which is, if you're ever in Chester Picture House, this is the man who did that fantastic piece, just as you walk in through the front doors.

Yes, it is an invitation to go to the movies, kind of like it's a parade scene, which was also inspired by Paprika as well.

I'd love to do more work in the movies.

The idea that his dreamlike narrative state is something that nobody wants.

I mean, speaking of Japan, this is a nation where Satoshi Kon brought us movies like Paprika and Perfect Blue.

I've

seen every Satoshi Kon movie and Paranoia.

And Khan also wrote and drew all the storyboards for this as well before the animation process would begin.

Animation was handled by Madhouse Inc., They are known for many animated TV series as well as films, some of which being Trigon and Hunter x Hunter, the remake from 2011, as well as stuff like Blue Lagoon, as well as Khan's other projects, Millennium Actress, Tokyo Godfathers, Paprika, and his series Paranoia Agent.

I really wish I would have told you to watch Paranoia Agent before this, Garrett, because I think you would absolutely

love it.

I mean, I wouldn't be surprised.

Millennium Actress is really great.

Paprika is great.

I swear to God, every Christmas I tell myself to watch Tokyo Godfathers and I haven't gotten around to it yet, but I will because every other film I've seen from his is like a five star masterpiece.

And that is by design, because Ocarina certainly has unsettling moments.

And when I first saw Link the way he is, I immediately thought of Paprika, how the parade has those weird-ass porcelain dolls.

I just started thinking of those dolls from the movie.

And I mean, they're the same kind of dolls, like the...

Um, maybe, like...

I can't remember if I watched Paprika at before or after Paranoia Agent.

Probably before, 'cause I've also watched Perfect Blue, like, a while back.

Um, it just feels like the answer to this question should be yes, 'cause at some point I'm sure there was-

And so I'm curious, as far as other animated films, what is something that an animated film that you could that you would like to see re-released into the

theaters? Oh, man, we were just talking Paprika the other day.

I think the the animation in that movie is just is just unbelievable.

So seeing that.

Marco.

Did you say paprika? Paprika.

Paprika? I know paprika is the way you pronounce the spice.

I have heard the movie pronounced differently than the spice.

What? I'm getting texts about it, too.

That's my hot take.

The English, the Hepburn, it's paprika.

What? Paprika.

Completely.

And Paprika acts as his ultimate thesis statement.

I really want to dwell on the imagery here for a minute because it is genuinely mind bending.

The sources highlight this brilliant distinction about how he adapted the book.

Right, and the reader understands the emotional weight of it intellectually.

Exactly.

But in the anime Paprika, Satoshi Kan literally draws a giant anthropomorphic refrigerator swinging his door open and swallowing a man whole.

It's terrifying.

Yes.

Paprika came out this year.

I've told you guys before, but I went, I took a bus all the way to New York City just to see it at a film festival.

That's crazy.

But I had actually seen...

this movie before, and I've also seen Paranoia Agent, that was also, Satoshi Kon is the director, yeah, Satoshi Kon is the director, and he also did Paranoia Agent, which is really a cool one, and Millennium Actress, which I've heard of before, I haven't watched that one, and Paprika, which I also have not seen.

But now those are on my list.

I'm going to re-watch Paranoia Agent and watch Millennium Actress and Paprika now.

Yeah, that was another one that we had talked about watching.

Yeah, I think I might want to check that one out on my own time after...