Après une rencontre mortelle avec deux yakuzas, un raté amoureux de son amie d'enfance va au paradis et en revient pour vivre avec elle et ses amis une expérience psychédélique à la découver... Tout lireAprès une rencontre mortelle avec deux yakuzas, un raté amoureux de son amie d'enfance va au paradis et en revient pour vivre avec elle et ses amis une expérience psychédélique à la découverte de soi.Après une rencontre mortelle avec deux yakuzas, un raté amoureux de son amie d'enfance va au paradis et en revient pour vivre avec elle et ses amis une expérience psychédélique à la découverte de soi.
- Réalisation
- Scénario
- Casting principal
- Récompenses
- 1 victoire au total
- Nishi
- (voix)
- Myon
- (voix)
- Jiisan
- (voix)
- Yan
- (voix)
- Ryou
- (voix)
- Yakuza boss
- (voix)
- Yakuza
- (voix)
- (as Rintarou Nishi)
- Atsu
- (voix)
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By the way, describing the plot of Mind Game would be utterly stupid. It's a mind game alright, you will get the message one way or another.
Straight 10/10
If you are looking for a normal story (you know, with a start, an end, a punchline) you are not going to find it in this anime. The animation is coarse, not like the classic Japanese animation, a bit like Tokyo Godfathers, but even more symbolic. So why is this film so great?
Because of the feeling. Plot and animation separately don't make this great, but together they do. The moral of it all is that you must live your life to the fullest and enjoy everything life throws at you, since it is all you have. No one else is going to live your life or enjoy what you have.
My thoughts are that this story is deeply personal to Robin Nishi and, even if a lot of the symbols in it can be singled out and understood, most of it you are left to guess. An argument for this is the torrent of animation sequences that don't make sense in the beginning of the movie, repeated at the end of the movie and suddenly making sense. I believe that is the greatest innovation of this anime.
Bottom line: this is an art film. This time I mean it in a good sense :). Perhaps because it has a positive view on live and it is more accessible. Anyway, if you are ready for its message and are in the mood for a fun carpe diem story, you gotta see this. If you've enjoyed Tokyo Godfathers, then you will also like this movie.
I am not going to spoil the experience for you and I will just to sum it up in a few short words. This is the story of a loser named Nishi who bumps into his old flame while she's being chased by some bad guys. They eventually end up the girl's family restaurant where bad guys show up things go horribly wrong and everything changes for everyone.
I found the little snippets in between the story to be most valuable rather than the story itself. Although you need to follow the story closely to understand the snippets. Is is the little things that count. This movie is a lesson. Maybe some sort of don't do what I did type of lesson I don't know. But whatever it is I feel is the only drug you can take visually.
Enjoy.
'Mind Game' has everything: irony, action, humour , even romance; and it touches practically every aspect of human life, going from relationships to domestic problems. All that covered in psychedelic imagery leaves a great impression.
You might experience various emotions watching this movie but one thing for sure, you won't feel like you've wasted your time when it's over.
Le saviez-vous
- AnecdotesThe movie's main character Nishi is based on Robin Nishi, the man who wrote the underground cult comic on which Mind Game was based. Some elements of the story are said to be autobiographical.
- GaffesTypo of "loading". In the movie it shows "Now Lording..." on the computer screen.
Actually, this is a play on words as Nishi finds himself in "heaven," about to meet "the Lord."
- Citations
Nishi: We've gotta leave. It's that or drown.
Yan: But how?
Nishi: The boat, of course!
Myon: The cops'll be looking for us.
Nishi: So?
Myon: The Yakuzas'll come after us!
Nishi: So what! I wanna get out! 'Cos there's so much out there! So many different people, living different lives! Incredibly good guys, bad guys... Folks completely different from us! It's one huge melting pot! See, it's not about success, dying in the streets, who's better, who's not! I just want to be a part of it! I realized that even if I've no connections, no talent, even if I'm one big loser, I want to use my hands and feet to think and move, to shape my own life! We can just die here or we can try, see what we've got!
- ConnexionsFeatured in WatchMojo: Top 10 Underappreciated Anime Movies (2016)
- Bandes originalesHungarian Rhapsody No. 2, S.244/2
Written by Franz Liszt
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- How long is Mind Game?Alimenté par Alexa
Détails
Box-office
- Montant brut aux États-Unis et au Canada
- 36 613 $US
- Week-end de sortie aux États-Unis et au Canada
- 5 609 $US
- 18 févr. 2018
- Montant brut mondial
- 36 613 $US
- Durée1 heure 43 minutes
- Couleur
- Mixage
- Rapport de forme
- 2.35 : 1