Buckle in and prepare to surrender yourself to an exhilarating and wildly entertaining ride. Mind Game is an explosion of unconstrained expression—gloriously colorful images ricochet in rapid fire associations, like director Masaaki Yuasa’s brain splattered onto the screen in all its goopy glory. Audiences will begin to grasp what they’re in for early on as loser Nishi, too wimpy to try to save his childhood sweetheart from gangsters, is shot by a soccer playing psychopath, projecting Nishi into the afterlife. In this limbo, God—shown as a series of rapidly changing characters—tells him to walk toward the light. But Nishi runs in the other direction and returns to Earth a changed man, driven to live each moment to the fullest. An animated mind trip unlike anything you’ve ever seen before.

“Whoa…” – Andrew Jupin, JBFC Senior Film Programmer