"Director: Satoshi Kon"

• My Actress/Perfect Blue | DVD | (01/08/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Millennium Actress has the stylistic sophistication of Perfect Blue with the empathy warmth and truth of Spirited Away. A gorgeous theatrical animation from the makers of anime classic Perfect Blue and last years' adorable Tokyo Godfathers. Millennium Actress begins as a TV crew track down 70 something screen goddess Chiyoko Fujiwara. Chiyoko begins to tell her life story at which point she literally steps into the past dragging the confused crew into her memories - one moment they're discussing dramatic art the next dodging bullets in the midst of a movie as the boundaries between film memory fact and fiction become a breathless blur. Perfect Blue: Mima was a pop idol worshiped by the masses until fashion dictated otherwise. In order to salvage her ailing career she is advised to drop music and pursue acting. A soap opera role is offered but Mima's character is less clean cut than desired. Regardless she agrees and events take a turn for the worse. She begins to feel reality slip slowly that her life is not her own. She discovers [imagines] her identical twin a mirror image that hasn't given up singing. Internet sites appear describing every intimate detail of her life and a mysterious figure stalks her from the shadows. Her friends and associates are threatened [and killed] as Mima descends into a dangerous world of paranoid delusion. She fears for her life and must unravel fact from fiction in order to stay alive.

• Paranoia Agent Complete Collection | DVD | (03/05/2010) from £35.08   |  Saving you £-5.09 (-17.00%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Paranoia Agent: Complete Collection (4 Discs)

• Tokyo Godfathers | DVD | (14/02/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £44.99

  Meet the ultimate dysfunctional family! From acclaimed director Satoshi Kon and Japan's leading animation studio Mad House comes this visually and emotionally stunning tale of adventure love and redemption. In Tokyo three homeless people's lives are changed forever when they discover a baby girl in a garbage dump on Christmas Eve. As the New Year fast approaches these three forgotten members of society band together to solve the mystery of the abandoned child and the fate of her parents. Along the way encounters with seemingly unrelated events and people force them to confront their own haunted pasts as they learn to face the future together.

• Paprika | DVD | (03/09/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Based on the original futuristic story, Paprika was written by the great master of Japanese literature, Yasutaka Tsutsui, in 1993 and is the psychedelic story of a female detective who investigates criminal cases by entering the dreams of her subjects. With music composed by Susuma Hirasawa, who also wrote the soundtrack for KON's award-winning film, Millennium Actress, and equally lauded television series, Paranoia Agent.In the near future, a revolutionary new psychotherapy treatment called PT has been invented. Through a device called the DC Mini it is able to act as a dream detective to enter into people's dreams and explore their unconscious thoughts. Before the government can pass a bill authorizing the use of such advanced psychiatric technology, one of the prototypes is stolen. In the wrong hands, the potential misuse of the device could be devastating, allowing the user to completely annihilate a dreamer's personality while they are asleep. Renowned scientist, Dr. Atsuko Chiba, enters the dream world under her exotic alter-ego, Paprika, in an attempt to discover who is behind the plot to undermine the new invention.

• Paranoia Agent Vol.1-4 | DVD | (07/04/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Contains all 13 episodes of this dark surreal anime! In this series of animations Satoshi Kon delivers a bizarre mysterious thriller but also a social satire on the dark underbelly of Tokyo and its citizens. In his multifaceted work Kon presents everyone as confused alienated and faced with a whacking great crisis of identity as the conflicting demands of Japan's fragmented society or just of modern life in general engender intolerable stress and unhealthy escapism.

• Tokyo Godfathers - DVD | DVD | (15/10/2018) from £4.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  It's Christmas Eve and three homeless friends have experienced a miracle: while rummaging in a dump for a Christmas present, they discover a newborn baby. Despite having nothing, the three take the baby in and name her Kiyoko, meaning Pure One. They embark in search of Kiyoko's mother, based on the little they know about her from her meagre belongings. Kind transwoman Hana, runaway teenager Miyuki, and belligerent Gin make an unlikely trio as they care for the baby and try to find where she belongs. By finally looking toward the future, they are also able to confront their pasts, coming just a little bit closer to finding their own place in the world.

• Paprika - DVD | DVD | (24/09/2018) from £5.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Prepare to enter the realm of fantasy and imagination -- where reality and dreams collide in a kaleidoscopic mindscape of sheer visual genius. The magical tale centers on a revolutionary machine that allows scientists to enter and record a subject's dream. After being stolen, a fearless detective and brilliant therapist join forces to recover the device -- before it falls into the hands of a 'dream terrorist' in this gripping anime thriller from acclaimed director Satoshi Kon.