Satoshi Kon’s Paprika opens with a mind-bending credits montage

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 enough to forge its own identity.