Running time 103 minutes Country Japan Language Japanese Mind Game ( マインド・ゲーム) is a 2004 based on Robin Nishi's of the same name. It was planned, produced and primarily animated by and adapted and by in his directorial debut, with chief and by Yūichirō Sueyoshi, by Tōru Hishiyama and groundwork and further animation direction by Masahiko Kubo. It is unusual among features other than in using a series of disparate visual styles to tell one continuous story. As Yuasa commented in a interview, 'Instead of telling it serious and straight, I went for a look that was a bit wild and patchy. I think that Japanese animation fans today don't necessarily demand something that's so polished.

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You can throw different styles at them and they can still usually enjoy it.' The film received a cult audience and was well received, winning, and has been praised by directors and. Allegedly, according to director, there was consideration for a release of the film on but it fell through.

The film is now available to stream on in Australia as of 2016. Announced that they licensed the film, which will be streamed on VRV Select on December 29, 2017 followed by a limited theatrical run in February 2018 and a home video release in Spring 2018.

Contents • • • • • • Plot [ ] Nishi is a 20-year-old loser with dreams of becoming a comic book artist. One late evening he runs into his childhood crush, Myon, on the subway. Nishi declares he has always loved her, but she tells him she is due to marry someone else. They go to her father's restaurant, and see Myon's father and her elder sister Yan (who runs the restaurant). Nishi also meets Myon's fiancee, Ryo.

Two yakuza gangsters enter, Atsu and a senior yakuza whom Atsu calls Aniki (lit. A term used by Yakuza to refer to each other).

They are looking for Myon's father, who seduced and stole Atsu's girlfriend, and now hides cowering behind a corner. Ibm Via Voice 9 Pro Usb Edition Português Download. It is later revealed through flashbacks that the senior yakuza is actually the first boyfriend of the girls' mother, whom was also seduced away by her husband during a disco in their youth. As Atsu threatens Myon with a gun, Ryo steps in and tries to punch Atsu, but instead gets knocked out.

Atsu then prepares to rape Myon, who calls out Nishi's name. Atsu turns on Nishi, who is rolled in a ball, terrified, placing his pistol against Nishi's anus. The gun goes off when Nishi suddenly moves, thus killing him instantly. The senior Yakuza, offended by Atsu's lack of control, shoots him dead, and then nonchalantly orders dinner. Meanwhile, Nishi is in some sort of where he encounters a being whose physical image changes every fraction of a second, Kami-sama (God). Kami-sama directs Nishi to walk into a red portal where he will disappear, but at the last moment Nishi runs for the opposite blue portal in order to return to life.

Kami-sama becomes impressed by Nishi's sheer will to live, and so lets him escape. Nishi returns to the moment just before Atsu pulled the trigger. This time, Nishi seizes Atsu's gun with his buttocks, and shoots him dead.

He, Yan and Myon all pile into the yakuza's car, leaving the father and Ryo (still unconscious) behind. They speed off, followed by the massed yakuzas. The Yakuza boss rings Nishi using the yakuza's car phone and reveals that Atsu was a player on the Japanese national soccer team. Then after further chase the boss has his men force the trio in to a dead end on a bridge. However, Nishi steers the car off the bridge and they are swallowed up by an enormous whale. Inside the whale, they meet an old man who was formerly yakuza and has been trapped in the whale for more than 30 years. (He is later shown through flashbacks to be the father of the senior Yakuza shown earlier).