Satoshi Kon's animated film Paprika (based on a novel by Yasutaka Tsutsui) takes place in a near future which architecturally does not seem to have advanced much but has developed technology which allows psychotherapists to enter and record their patients' dreams. There are no architectural styles or archetypes portrayed in the film which are not currently in existence. The film could take place a year or several decades from now.

The city in the film is relatively generic of a major metropolis, but contains elements that are reminiscent of Tokyo, Venice, and any American city, though since the film is Japanese and a lot of the film takes place in dreamland, it can be surmised that the un-Tokyo-like parts of the city are not "real" environments. There are crowded teeming streets suffused with the incandescent glow of advertisements that put Times Square to shame; there are narrow waterways complete with gondolas; there are skyscrapers and large buildings connected by enclosed bridges; there are low-rise apartments buildings shaped to conform to convoluted street plans; and there are houses that reminds us of the American suburbs.

The architecture of the future in Paprika could be described as "the architecture of the present, just more of it!"