Paprika

Dreams offer a revealing passage into the mind—its longings, ambitions, and buried memories. At a research lab developing the “DC Mini,” a device capable of entering another person’s dreams, Atsuko Chiba and Kousaku Tokita push the technology forward with a clear goal: using dream therapy to better understand patients and treat psychological disorders.

That promise turns dangerous when the DC Mini is stolen. With people around them beginning to behave unsettlingly, Chiba and Tokita realize the device could be weaponized for psychological terror, driving victims toward mental collapse. Joined by Officer Konakawa, a detective undergoing the experimental treatment, they pursue the culprit across the boundary between waking life and the dream world.