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Featuring music produce by Shinichiro Watanabe (Cowboy Bebop) and animated by the company responsible for animating Spriggan, Memories, and the Animatrix. You've heard hype before, but trust us when we say that Mind game is one of the great animated films of all time. Produced by Studio 4C (who did the animation on the recent Steamboy), Mind game couldn't be more different from the slick giant robots, mega-sized guns, and short-skirted schoolgirls that have come to be associated with Japanese anime in the minds of Westerners. A stream-of-consciousness, surreal succession of sight gags, shifting art styles, and animation so
Featuring music produce by Shinichiro Watanabe (Cowboy Bebop) and animated by the company responsible for animating Spriggan, Memories, and the Animatrix. You've heard hype before, but trust us when we say that Mind game is one of the great animated films of all time. Produced by Studio 4C (who did the animation on the recent Steamboy), Mind game couldn't be more different from the slick giant robots, mega-sized guns, and short-skirted schoolgirls that have come to be associated with Japanese anime in the minds of Westerners. A stream-of-consciousness, surreal succession of sight gags, shifting art styles, and animation so alive it looks like it's being drawn right before your eyes, Mind game is all about life, and how to live it. Nishi is a young loser who bumps into Miyo, his enormously-endowed ex-girlfriend. She's about to get married, and invites him to come to her yakitori restaurant to see her dad and sister and talk about old times. But her dad owes the yakuza money and when they bust into the place they manage to kill Nishi. Nishi then goes to heaven, argues with God, escapes, goes back in time, rescues Miyo and her sister, runs away in a car and gets swallowed by a whale. These are not normal people. But rather than playing fast and loose with its story, while you're watching this movie every one of these twists makes perfect sense. And the story isn't the point, really. The point is the characters, and Mind game contains all their hopes and dreams; these characters are so real theyseem 4-D, not 3-D.
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Manufacturer: Tbs
Release date: 5 June 2006
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0698324000693 UPC: 698324000693
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