PAPRIKA
About the Record
Paprika is a Japanese animated film, based on Yasutaka Tsutsui’s 1993 novel about a female detective who investigates criminal cases by entering the dreams of her subjects. The film was directed by Satoshi Kon, animated by Madhouse Studios and will be released by Sony Pictures Classics on May 25, 2007. The original score was composed by Susumu Hirasawa who also composed the soundtrack for Kon’s award-winning film, Millennium Actress, and equally-lauded television series, “Paranoia Agent.”
To quote the New York Film Festival, “If Japan’s most famous anime filmmaker is Hayao Miyazaki, the most sophisticated is probably Satoshi Kon…His new movie plays like a head-on collision between Hello Kitty and Philip K. Dick…and as the characters shuttle from dream to dream, nightmare to nightmare, Paprika becomes a thrilling tour-de-force of visual invention – every frame is packed with imagination. This delightful movie is bursting with ideas about Japanese repression, multiple identities, collective dreams and the dark side of the country’s love of Cute.”
Susuma Hirasawa is one of Japan’s most cutting-edge electronic musicians. He intricately weaves electronic music and voice with organic instruments to create an orchestral experience unlike anything you’ve ever heard.
Tracklisting
01 Parade (5:44)
02 Mediational Field (4:57)
03 The Blind Spot in a Corridor (1:57)
04 Welcome to the Circus (0:58)
05 A Tree in the Dark (1:24)
06 Escapee (3:12)
07 Lounge (2:04)
08 The Shadow (3:17)
09 A Drop Filled with Memories (4:37)
10 Chaser (3:01)
11 Prediction (1:42)
12 Parade (instrumental) (5:49)
13 The Girl in Byakkoya - White Tiger Field (4:49)
In stores May 22, 2007
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