Mind Game (2004)
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Mind Game (2004)

Genre
Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Release Date
August 07, 2004
Studio
GKIDS
Genre
Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Release Date
August 07, 2004
MPAA Rating
-
Duration
103 minute(s)
Production Budget
-
Studio
GKIDS
Official Site
-
Director
Masaaki Yuasa, Koji Morimoto
Producer
Yutaka Suzuki, Rika Hatakeda
Screenwriter
Masaaki Yuasa
Starring
  • Koji Imada
  • Sayaka Maeda
  • Takashi Fujii
  • Seiko Takuma
  • Tomomitsu Yamaguchi
  • Toshio Sakata
  • Joji Shimaki
  • Rintarou Nishi
  • Kenichi Chujou

Buckle in and prepare to surrender yourself to an exhilarating and wildly entertaining ride. Cult classic "Mind Game" is an explosion of unconstrained expression – gloriously colorful images ricochet in rapid fire associations, like Masaaki Yuasa’s brain splattered onto the screen in all its goopy glory. Audiences will begin to grasp what they are in for early on as loser Nishi, too wimpy to try to save his childhood sweetheart from gangsters, is shot in the butt by a soccer-playing psychopath, projecting Nishi into the afterlife. In this limbo, God – shown as a series of rapidly changing characters – tells him to walk toward the light. But Nishi runs like hell in the other direction and returns to Earth a changed man, driven to live each moment to the fullest.