Cebalord Very best movie i ever watch

Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Siflutter It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Jon Zuroff Absolutely unconventional and totally unforgettable. I was only lucky enough to hear about this film in a YouTube countdown of top adult anime films and I was immediately captivated by its unique style of animation; a brilliant mix of anime and film. After searching the web and watching it in less than executable quality, i found a true gem of a film. With its intriguing stylizations of expression that go as far as obscuring the lines of life and death, reality and fantasy, love and hate... a real treat is in store for audiences (17 years and older). Do not expect anything that might mirror the pristine outlines of Studio Ghibli's masterworks. Instead, discover that there are many other unforgettable masterpieces in the world of anime films. Mind Games is a film that all anime fans MUST see before they die. Jot this one on your bucket list.

veeshman I was pretty much impressed by few Japan Animations recently. So, I i rented this movie "Mind Game (2004)" with expectations.First of all the animation style is purely different,it is new and fresh. Movie starts well and creates high expectations with in the first 5minutes & That's all. Through out the movie we wait wait and wait...with our expectations and neither part of the movie fulfils it!!Story- I didn't understand the story while watching the movie....,even after watching the movie....! but some how got an idea after reading about it in web. (You need to read a directors note to understand the story!! Holy Sh*t) ((Prestige, Donnie the Darko, Dejavu - successful movies with hidden story line))Animation- As i said earlier, for me it was FRESH and NEW and with few good ideas.I don't have any more specifications in the movie to talk about.So,Conclusion- Consider an art of a Mother and a Child. Classic or Normal Art- with a clear picture, beautiful colours, tone and every one can understand and enjoy it. Modern Art- with Stripes, circles,no eyes,five limbs,awful/different colour combinations, and more often the creator must explain it to understand it to enjoy it completely.Mind Game (2004) - Is a modern art type of a movie (some may enjoy & some may not)My rating 4/10-less than average (wall-e - 9.0, grave of the fireflies-10, princess monoke-08, whisper of the heart-08...)

badidosh "This is one surreal mess!" says one character in the film and, yessir, how right she is as weird doesn't even begin to describe the highly experimental anime "Mind Game," Maasaki Yuasa's adaptation of Robin Nishi's manga. It's simultaneously an assault to the senses (Oh, what bright colors! Oh what loud drum rolls!) and an assault to logic (What the hell did they just do?) though it's not to say it's not a hilariously entertaining trip.The film's narrative -- if you can even call it that -- involves the struggling comic artist Nishi (voiced by Koji Imada) who has just met his childhood girlfriend Myon (Sayaka Maeda) and they catch things up in her father's yakitori pub where they come face to face with two Yakuza members. Nishi gets killed in the process but in a highly bizarre encounter with God in the afterlife, he is brought to life, manages to kill both gangsters, and makes a run for it with Myon and her sister Yan (Seiko Takuma) as they are pursued by other gang members. The three are then swallowed whole by a giant whale. Trapped inside with a man who has spent the last 30 years inside the whale's belly, Nishi, Myon and Yan finally get a chance what true happiness means for them.A Dali painting by way of a French New Wave film, the wildly unpredictable head trip of the aptly titled "Mind Game" beguiles all logical conventions, presented in dumbfounding temporal edits, inebriating close-up transitions, and varying degrees of crude yet proficient artworks. Unsuspecting viewers are likely to be thrown off by Yuasa's helter-skelter bombast (an outlook substantiated by not a few walkouts from the film's screening) but with exactly the right frame of mind, notwithstanding a sometimes bloated feeling courtesy of the film clocking at a little over 100 minutes, this heckuva kaleidoscopic joyride should delight as it tramples all cinematic formalities and shows, should you decide to break the rules, how to do it with style.

Vadim Berman Like most people here, I saw Mind Game on a festival - in my case, Melbourne International Film Festival in August 2006 and was simply blown away. I am no fan of anime (I wasn't before Mind Game), because the ones I have seen before seemed either too violent (Akira) or difficult to appreciate because of the Japanese cultural peculiarities (Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke).Mind Game seems to be a blend of Japanese and Western cinematography with only a few cultural barriers for westerners. I believe there are influences by Coen brothers (the hilarious episode with milk vs. "Mr. Mussburger is such a nice man, I give him double stitch anyways"), Run Lola Run, even Amelie. Perhaps the plot is inspired by the book of Job? Add to this Japanese imagination and intentionally left space for interpretation.While the plot is inventive and complex enough, it is not what makes the film, in my opinion. It is the ability to focus on tiniest details and create, well, a detailed consistent absurdist universe.Hopefully, it will be easier to find future creations of the same authors.