Title: Paprika (2006 film)
Content:  Paprika (パプリカ) is a 2006 Japanese science-fiction psychological thriller anime film directed by Satoshi Kon. The film is based on the 1993 novel of the same name by Japanese author Yasutaka Tsutsui. It is Kon's fourth and final feature film before his death in 2010. The script was co-written by Kon and Seishi Minakami, who also wrote for Kon's TV series Paranoia Agent, the character design and animation director was Masashi Ando (known for Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Your Name), the music was composed by Kon's frequent collaborator Susumu Hirasawa, and the art director was Nobutaka Ike, who has worked on all of Kon's works. Japanese animation studio 
Title: Paprika (novel)
Content:  Paprika (パプリカ) is a 1993 techno-thriller novel written by Yasutaka Tsutsui. It first appeared in Marie Claire magazine in four parts, each appearing chronologically in the January 1991, March 1992, August 1992, and June 1993 issues. A manga adaption of the novel was created by Reiji Hagiwara in 1995 but was not published until 2003. The novel was adapted as an animated film in 2006, which was itself adapted into a second manga the following year by Eri Sakai. The novel was translated into English by Andrew Driver, was published by Alma Books in April 2009.
Title: Paprika (novel)
Content:  An animated film adaption of the novel, directed by Satoshi Kon, was released in 2006, with Yasutaka Tsutsui himself providing the voice of a bartender.
Title: Paprika (2006 film)
Content:  Due to the small scale of release, both Millennium Actress and Tokyo Godfathers had a hard time recouping their investment funds. However, Kon's name had become known among the film industry by the time of the Paprika project, and his reputation had already been established, so the film was produced. After finishing his first film, Perfect Blue, Kon was actually planning to make his next film, Paprika, with the producer of the company that financed it, but the project was ruined when the company, Rex Entertainment, went bankrupt. However, the idea of Paprika was in Kon's mind as early as 1998, and his attempts to depict the ambiguities and shaky boundaries between "illusion and reality" and "memory and reality" in his directorial debut 
Title: Paprika (2006 film)
Content:  animated and produced the film. The Japanese voice cast featured Megumi Hayashibara, Tōru Emori, Katsunosuke Hori, Tōru Furuya, Akio Ōtsuka, Kōichi Yamadera, and Hideyuki Tanaka. The story is about a battle between a dream terrorist who steals a device that allows others to share their dreams and causes nightmares for people, and a research psychologist who enters the dream world and changes into Paprika, a dream detective, to investigate the cases. The film was released in Japan on November 25, 2006, and was later released in North America on May 24, 2007. It was also in competition at the 63rd Venice International Film Festival. Critical reception was positive.
Title: Paprika (2006 film)
Content:  himself has perceptively brightened." Helen McCarthy in 500 Essential Anime Movies said that Paprika "proves once again that the great science fiction doesn't rely on giant robots and alien worlds". Conversely, Roger Moore of the Orlando Sentinel gave a negative review, saying "With a conventional invade-dreams/bend-reality plot, it's a bit of a bore. It's not as dreamlike and mesmerizing as Richard Linklater's rotoscope-animation Waking Life, less fanciful than the Oscar-winning anime Spirited Away." Bruce Westbrook of the Houston Chronicle said the film "is as trippy as a Jefferson Airplane light show" and criticized the characters and the dialogue. Time 
Title: Paprika (2006 film)
Content:  and colleague of Atsuko Chiba who in reality is helping Inui in his evil plans. He is obsessively in love with Chiba. Osanai is voiced by Doug Erholtz in the English dub. ; Hideyuki Tanaka as Guy. ; Satomi Kōrogi as a Japanese doll that reappears throughout the story. ; Daisuke Sakaguchi as Kei Himuro, a friend of Tokita and a suspect in the theft of the DC Mini. Himuro is voiced by Brian Beacock in the English dub. ; Mitsuo Iwata as Doctor Yasushi Tsumura. ; Rikako Aikawa as Doctor Nobue Kakimoto, two scientists who fall victim to the DC Mini thief. ; Yasutaka Tsutsui, the author of the novel the film is based on, as Kuga. ; Satoshi Kon, the director, as Jinnai, two bartenders who befriend Konakawa. 
Title: Paprika (2006 film)
Content:  Anime Fair. Andrez Bergen of Yomiuri Shimbun praised the Paprika as the "most mesmerizing animation long-player since Miyazaki's Spirited Away five years ago" (in 2001). He also praised the film's animation and backgrounds. Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle gave it a positive review, saying that the film is a "sophisticated work of the imagination" and "challenging and disturbing and uncanny in the ways it captures the nature of dreams". LaSalle later went on to say that the film is a "unique and superior achievement." Rob Nelson of The Village Voice praised the film for its visuals. However, he 
Title: Paprika (2006 film)
Content:  contrast and duality within the same person, but the characterization and arrangement of the other characters follows the same idea. The parade of inanimate "nightmares" depicted in the film is not found in the novel, and was entirely Kon's idea. With the time limitation of the film, it was difficult to portray various dreams in different ways as in the original, so Kon decided to focus on a dream image that would be symbolic throughout the film and that would be instantly recognizable as a nightmare when it appeared. According to Kon, the parade scene was something that he and Susumu Hirasawa, who produced the music, created together.
Title: Paprika (2006 film)
Content:  detail with expressions that only visual images could provide. The descriptions of dreams in the novel are wonderful, but they are made possible by supplementary explanations in the text. However, in the case of visual works, which show the images of dreams flowing one after another, explanation is nothing but stopping the flow. In order to create a glamorous image for the entire film and still devote enough time to portraying the dream scenes without introducing the characters, Kon, in contrast to the previous film, used voice actors who were well known for their voice acting and fit the characters' image perfectly. The budget was about 300 million yen, and the production took about two and a half years from planning to completion.

Question: Who was the screenwriter for Paprika?
Answer: Satoshi Kon.