Paco and the Magical (Picture) Book (パコと魔法の絵本 Pako to Mahō no Eho?) is a 2008 Japanese film written and directed by Tetsuya Nakashima, based on a Japanese play by Hirohito Goto. It was shown at the Munich sian Filmfest in 2008 and has been nominated for three awards for the 2009 Asian Film Awards.[2] Actors Koji Yakusho, and Ayaka Wilson and director Tetsuya Nakashima have been nominated for the 2008 Japanese Academy Award.

The movie is set in a hospital where "strange" people are sent.

One of the older, gruffer patients, Onuki, is quite annoyed with the arrival of Paco. She is in the hospital due to a memory disorder- she can only remember the events of one day at a time. Each day she reads a pop-up children's book, and often asks Onuki to read to her. Each day it is a new story for her.

Eventually, the two of them develop a friendship, and Onuki decides to enlist the help of the other people in the hospital to perform a play of the book, hoping it will help Paco.