2006 - PAPRIKA - Japanese anime about a machine that allows you to enter dreams, hum...

Well I think I've seen this one before.  Scientists has invented a machine that allows people to enter and alter the dreams of others.  Two of these machines are missing which causes all sorts of havoc as the dream world starts to merge into the actual world

Although using the same basic idea of the dream machine as Inception,  Paprika clearly beat it to the punch by about five years.  The film was based on a novel by Yasutaka Tsutsui which was published in 1993, this dream machine idea has been around a while.

Paprika is quite interesting and since it's an anime it has a lot of unusual visual stuff going on in it.  The story is a science fiction whodunit with the villain able to do serious damage to a victim's mental health. The film tends to get confusing  probably due to the short running time.  

Paprika is like a lot of these science fiction anime films, they all end in a near apocalypse.  Still in spite of that cliche that is one of the more interesting films in this genre.

90 minutes.