Synopsis
Nishi is a loser who has a crush on his childhood girlfriend. After an encounter with the Japanese mafia, he journeys to heaven and back, and ends up trapped in an even more unlikely place.
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Cast
- Koji ImadaNishi (voice)
- Sayaka MaedaMyon (voice)
- Takashi FujiiJiisan (voice)
- Seiko TakumaYan (voice)
- Tomomitsu YamaguchiRyou (voice)
- Toshio SakataFather of Myon and Yan (voice)
- Jôji ShimakiYakuza boss (voice)
- Rintaro NishiYakuza (voice)
- Kenichi ChujouAtsu (voice)
Recommendations
- 100
Film Threat
Put simply, Mind Game is a mind-blowing experience. - 80
Village Voice
The exhilarating Japanese animated coming-of-age fantasy Mind Game plays out like a hallucinogen-fueled shaggy-dog joke that only ends after twenty-year-old horndog Nishi (Kôji Imada) discovers that the world does not revolve around him. - 70
Variety
Brain-teasing, wildly unpredictable animated feature. - 60
The New York Times
A sometimes enthralling, sometimes exhausting tour de force. - 60
Village Voice
All scrunched together into a dense marathon of optical-cranial overload, this mental puzzle-box arrives three decades too late for what would have been an inevitable midnight movie run, but undoubtedly there are American otakus popping this one into multi-region DVD players right now amid the glorbeling of bong hits. - 60
TV Guide Magazine
A virtuoso experiment in animation that combines traditional anime aesthetics style with a variety of Western animation styles.
