Satoshi Kon's 'Paprika' May Appear May 28th 2007 on R2 UK DVD.

How about including some info about the label that will release this or maybe a link to the original news source?

Caterpillar,

www.play.com shows it as a fifth of March release, while www.Sonypictures.co.uk has it in their May release lists.

To be more precise:

http://www.sonypictures.co.uk/homevideo/catalog/catalogDetail_UKDVDCDR41985.html

PAPRIKA
Format: DVD
Also available on: DVD Rental DVD Sell-Through

A group of brilliant scientists have developed a form of psychotherapy with the invention of a machine which enables a person to enter anothers' dreams. When the device is stolen by a "dream terrorist," it is up Atsuko Chiba, a scientist under the code name PAPRIKA, to track down the apparatus and save the world from madness.


Type: Rental
Release Date: 5/28/2007
Catalogue Number: CDR41985

DVD INFORMATION

• Type: Rental
• Release Date: 5/28/2007
• Catalogue Number: CDR41985
• CC: Yes
• Languages: English- 5.1; Italian- 5.1; Polish- 5.1; Spanish- 5.1

(Which is good news for the Polish, Italians and Spanish I guess)

Let's pray that the missing Japanese dub is just a mistake...

Holy shit, you're right! Well, considering this UK DVD would be out before a Japanese disc release and how paranoid the Japanese are about back importing of cheap foreign DVDs I wouldn't be surprised if they insisted on a release that has no Japanese language track and will therefore not appeal to Japanese costumers.

Curious to see when it’ll be released. March or May? Does it matter? Well, not really as I’ll be buying it for sure. I immensely enjoyed it on the big screen during the IFFR 2007 and I don’t need to tell you why, Todd’s review says it all. Satoshi Kon is one of the anime directors who makes animation pieces of such a high quality that they’re even accessible to those who don’t like anime.

Anyway, I think I’ll be passing the English release as chances are high the Japanese will come with something good this movie really deserves. The Japanese DVD release has already been announced as well, but no info yet on the price, contents or release date:

http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E3%83%91%E3%83%97%E3%83%AA%E3%82%AB-%E5%8E%9F%E4%BD%9C-%E7%AD%92%E4%BA%95%E5%BA%B7%E9%9A%86/dp/B000KIX9CI/sr=1-3/qid=1171046996/ref=sr_1_3/503-4896212-0901518?ie=UTF8&s=dvd

Still, Kon’s last two films Millennium Actress and Tokyo Godfathers were both released in Japan as limited edition box sets with English subs included as well. Let’s hope the same will be the case for Paprika. Of course it’s all about the movie, but IMO this movie deserves something better then only a regular 1-disc DVD release. For those curious how the former box sets look like, check:

http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/7816/63bd.jpg (second and third shelve from above)

All that’s left is a little bit more waiting and if you can’t wait, perhaps this will help as a temporary solution to get rid of your impatience:

http://www.hobbystock.jp/item/view/HBY-GCF-00000819

Oh, I'll definitely wait until after it's been released in Japan, the UK and the US and then I'll pick the one that's most relevant to my interests.

Strange that Sony should leave out the Japanese audio. They released Tokyo Godfathers with the original audio on it.

Sony sometimes releases movies with DTS and D5.1 for English and only D5.1 for Japanese, but I've never heard of them skipping the Japanese soundtrack altogether.

My guess would be this is a typo and will be remedied before May.

http://www.play.com/DVD/DVD/4-/3256478/Paprika/Product.html
to be released on 5th of march !!!!