Satoshi Kon’s Paprika opens with a mind-bending credits montage
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Several American filmmakers have also borrowed liberally from Kon’s boldly surreal visual language, including Darren Aronofsky, whose Requiem for a Dream and Black Swan mimic Perfect Blue to a concerning degree. Other homages to Kon’s body of work are subtler, such as Christopher Nolan’s Inception, which draws from the DNA of Kon’s Paprikabut is distinct […]