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Paranoia Agent Satoshi Kon, Japan, 2004 "An anime hallmark!" - Time Out New York "Mr. Kon's most accomplished to date! The film stands next to David Lynch's Twin Peaks and Lars Von Trier's The Kingdom as one of the most sustained and ambitious artistic visions ever broadcast on television...set in a modern-day Tokyo that's observed with the cool detachment of a J.G. Ballard novel." - Grady Hendrix, The New York Sun "Together the films form an oneiric tapestry of incandescent imaginary lives given meaning by dreams and movies." - Simon Abrams, New York Press This 13-chapter TV mini-series is the clearest, fullest expression of the Kon-ian Universe yet realized. It marked Kon’s first collaboration with the innovative animation company Madhouse, and the result was a sensation in Japan — and a cult item just about everywhere else. Part One: Chapters 1-7; 175m DVD Sat Jun 28: 8:15pm Sun Jun 29: 1pm Part Two: Chapters 8-13; 150m DVD Sun Jun 29: 4:15pm Tue Jul 1: 6:15pm Tsukiko Sagi, a successful toy designer, labors to invent a new creature that will be loved (and purchased) by millions of kids. Ichi — top student, star athlete, and Boy Most Likely to Succeed — worries that his privileged position is being challenged by a nerdy new transfer student. Victim of a multiple personality disorder, sober-minded Harumi Chono is trying to keep her sensuous alter ego Maria under wraps and out of sight. The characters are seemingly unrelated—until each is attacked by a young boy wearing in-line skates and wielding a golden baseball bat. Dubbed Lil’ Slugger by the tabloid press, this mysterious assailant is thought by some to be an urban legend, by others to be a decoy for the real culprit. For detectives Keiichi Ikari and Mitsuhiro Maniwa, he’s an increasing headache as pressure mounts to arrest somebody, anybody, before the city explodes. Visit the Paranoia Agent website ~ listen to critic-at-large John Powers talk about Paranoia Agent on NPR.

Buy Tickets PART ONE: CHAPTERS 1-7 Sat Jun 28: 8:15 Sun Jun 29: 1 PART TWO: CHAPTERS 8-13 Sun Jun 29: 4:15* *Q&A w/Satoshi Kon Tue Jul 1: 6:15