Film

Mind Game

2004 · 1h 43m · Animation · Romance · Comedy

This Story Has Never Ended.

IMDb

7.7

Rotten Tomatoes

100%

Metacritic

66

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.

Koji Imada

Nishi (voice)

Sayaka Maeda

Myon (voice)

Takashi Fujii

Jiisan (voice)

Seiko Takuma

Yan (voice)

Tomomitsu Yamaguchi

Ryou (voice)

Toshio Sakata

Father of Myon and Yan (voice)

Jôji Shimaki

Yakuza boss (voice)

Rintaro Nishi

Yakuza (voice)

Kenichi Chujou

Atsu (voice)

• Masaaki YuasaDirector · Screenplay
• Eiko TanakaProducer · Executive Producer
• Masarô ToyoshimaProducer
• Rika HatakedaProducer
• Munetoshi MatsuoProducer
• Yutaka SuzukiProducer
• Yasushi ShiinaExecutive Producer
• Takaaki KusakaExecutive Producer
• Seiichi YamamotoOriginal Music Composer
• Keiko MizutaEditor

Official Trailer

Release date

August 7, 2004

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

1h 43m

Rated

R 18+

Revenue

$36,613

Genres

Animation, Romance, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Adventure

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