Mind Game (2004)
February 7, 2025 12:17 PM - Subscribe

"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."

For a person who doesn't see many mangas, this over-the-top wild ride is insane. Hundreds of psychedelic styles are thrown together one after the other in an endless stream of strange subconsciousness. Visually inventive, experimentally uninhibited, fast and non-stop weirdness, it's like nearly nothing else I've ever seen.

The trailer.

💯 score on Rotten Tomatoes.

4.2 on Letterboxd.

7.7. on IMDb.
posted by growabrain (3 comments total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
 
Definitely one of the most animated films ever made. The frantic whale escape sequence scored with a drum solo leaves me genuinely drained at the end of it every time.
posted by figurant at 12:56 PM on February 7


This is a crazy, crazy movie. "Most animated film ever made," indeed.
posted by mrphancy at 1:23 PM on February 7


Sometimes a movie is so aggressively extra that it sort of wraps around to becoming meh, and I feel like that kind of happened here. I gotta say, though: there aren't a lot of movies where someone rips a gun out of someone's hand using only their clenched buttcheeks, but this is definitely one of them.
posted by phooky at 9:25 AM on February 8


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