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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.
Original Release
08/07/2004
US Release
08/28/2018
Cast
Name | Character |
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Koji Imada | Nishi (voice) / Nishi |
Sayaka Maeda | Myon (voice) / Myon |
Takashi Fujii | Jiisan (voice) / Jiisan |
Seiko Takuma | Yan / Yan (voice) |
Tomomitsu Yamaguchi | Ryou (voice) / Ryou |
Toshio Sakata | Father of Myon and Yan / Father of Myon and Yan (voice) |
Jōji Shimaki | Yakuza boss / Yakuza boss (voice) |
Rintarô Nishi | Yakuza / Yakuza (voice) |
Kenichi Chujou | Atsu / Atsu (voice) |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Koji Imada | Nishi (voice) / Nishi |
Sayaka Maeda | Myon (voice) / Myon |
Takashi Fujii | Jiisan (voice) / Jiisan |
Seiko Takuma | Yan / Yan (voice) |
Tomomitsu Yamaguchi | Ryou (voice) / Ryou |
Toshio Sakata | Father of Myon and Yan / Father of Myon and Yan (voice) |
Jōji Shimaki | Yakuza boss / Yakuza boss (voice) |
Rintarô Nishi | Yakuza / Yakuza (voice) |
Kenichi Chujou | Atsu / Atsu (voice) |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Takaaki Kusaka | Executive Producer |
Tamotsu Shiina | Executive Producer |
Eiko Tanaka | Executive Producer |
Michael Arias | Producer |
Rika Hatakeda | Producer |
Munetoshi Matsuo | Producer |
Yutaka Suzuki | Producer |
Eiko Tanaka | Producer |
Masarô Toyoshima | Producer |