Dream Detective

How can we prove that our life is not a dream? The opening work of the Tokyo International Film Festival and the shortlisted film for the 63rd Venice Film Festival - the original work of Satoshi Kon's animation "Paprika" (also known as "The Detective"). The source of inspiration for Nolan, the director of "Inception"; the work of Tsutsui Yasutaka, one of Japan's three major science fiction novelists, whose strange writing style creates a dream-telling classic. A young girl dressed in a red T-shirt and jeans suddenly appears in people's dreams. Is this a dream or reality? The beautiful psychotherapist Chiba Atsuko and the genius scientist Tokida Kosaku jointly developed the "PT device". In this way, dreams can be displayed on the computer screen and even medical intervention can be performed. Using this new invention, the mature and steady Professor Atsuko Chiba transformed into a beautiful girl codenamed Publika and entered the patient's dream to treat mental illness. But she is surrounded by extremely bloodthirsty enemies, who have been secretly plotting to attack her. Soon their new invention was stolen by unknown persons. Since then, a series of creepy and strange things have happened in the institute, starting a big melee including science, cults, dreams, movies, mythology, religion, homosexuality and Freudian psychology! As a detective of dreams, after curing many psychiatric patients, she is about to be swallowed up by dreams. Can she still escape from the nightmare...