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Mind Game (movie)

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[ adapted from Mind Game (manga) ]

Alternative title:
マインド・ゲーム (Japanese)
Age rating: Mature (May contain sex, drugs, and extreme graphic violence)
Plot Summary: Nishi has always loved Myon since they were little. And now as adults, he wants to pursue his dream of becoming a manga artist and marrying his childhood sweetheart. There's one problem, though. She's already been proposed to and she thinks Nishi is too much of a wimp. But upon meeting the fiancé while at her family's diner and accepting him as a good guy, they encounter a couple Yakuza (Japanese mafia), only to have Nishi grasp a certain revelation. And, with his newly aquired look on life, adventures abound as he, Myon, and her sister, Yan, escape the Yakuza into a most unlikely location where they meet an old man...
User Ratings: 415 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 134 votes (sub:128, dub:4, ?:1, Ita.sub:1)
 Excellent: 92 votes (sub:83, dub:3, ?:1, Spa.sub:1, edit.dub:1, Fre.sub:1, Ger.sub:1, Rus.dub:1)
 Very good: 75 votes (sub:70, raw:2, dub:2, Spa.sub:1)
 Good: 54 votes (sub:52, dub:2)
 Decent: 15 votes (sub:14, Pol.sub:1)
 So-so: 4 votes (sub:4)
 Not really good: 10 votes (sub:8, ?:2)
 Weak: 12 votes (sub:11, Ger.sub:1)
 Bad: 8 votes (sub:6, dub:1, raw:1)
 Awful: 5 votes (sub:5)
 Worst ever: 6 votes (sub:6)
Seen in part or in whole by 580 users, rank: #969
Median rating: Excellent
Arithmetic mean: 8.079 (Very good+.07), std. dev.: 2.2774, rank: #336
Weighted mean: 8.050 (Very good+.04), rank: #291 (seen all: 8.14 / seen some: 5.10 / won't finish: 3.04)
Bayesian estimate: 8.037 (Very good+.03), rank: #212
Running time: 104 minutes
Vintage: 2004-08-07
Premiere date:
2004-08-07 (Japan)
2006-01-21 (Italy - Future Film Festival)
Links: We have 1
Trivia: We have 3
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Related releases:
    Mind Game (R4 DVD) 2008-12-03

Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Masaaki Yuasa

Script: Masaaki Yuasa

Music: Seiichi Yamamoto

Original Manga: Robin Nishi

Character Design: Yuichiro Sueyoshi

Art director: Tooru Hishiyama

Animation director:
Koji Morimoto
Masahiko Kubo (asst.)
Yuichiro Sueyoshi

Cgi director: Keisuke Sasagawa

Producer: Eiko Tanaka

Associate producer: Michael Arias

Colour Design: Tomoko Washida

Editing: Kyoko Mizuta

In-between Animation Supervision: Mutsuko Kajigaya

In-Between Check: Sae Niratsuka

Key Animation:
Chie Uratani
Daisuke Nakayama
Eiji Abiko
Fumitoshi Oisaki
Hideki Kakita
Hideki Sekiguchi
Hideki Takahashi
Hiromu Takaguchi
Hiroshi Nakanishi
Hiroyuki Nishimura
Jiro Kanai
Katsuyuki Tsubouchi
Kayoko Nabeta
Kazuya Nomura
Keiichi Sasajima
Kenichi Yamaguchi
Makoto Yamada
Masae Nakayama
Masaharu Tada
Masato Takemoto
Masato Tamagawa
Masayuki Sekine
Miyako Miyano
Nobutaka Ito
Nobutoshi Ogura
Shoujirou Nishimi
Toshihisa Kaiya
Ushio Tazawa
Yasuhiro Aoki
Yoshiharu Ashino
Yuichi Tanaka
Yumi Chiba

Music Artist: Yoko Kanno ("Rhapsody")

Music Director: Shinichiro Watanabe

Setting: Masahiko Kubo

 

Koji Imada as Nishi

Jouji Shimaki as Yakuza boss

Kenichi Chujou as Atsu

Rintarou Nishi as Yakuza

Sayaka Maeda as Myon

Seiko Takuma as Yan

Takahashi Fujii as Ji-san (Old Man)

Tomomitsu Yamaguchi as Ryo

Toshio Sakata as Father of Myon and Yan

Japanese companies 

Animation Production: Studio 4°C

Audition Assistance: Yomiuri TV

Background Art:
Atelier BWCA
PAC

Digital Ink & Paint:
Buyuu (Digital Section)
Studio Gimlet
Studio Tarje
Trace Studio M

Film Developing: Imagica

In-Between Animation:
AIC
Anime R
Anime Spot
Bee Train
Dogakobo
Front Line
GAINAX
I-G Niigata
J.C. Staff
Kino Production
M I
Mouse
Nakamura Production
Production I.G
Radix
Satelight
Studio Cockpit
Studio Gimlet
Studio Live
Studio Mu
Studio Wanpac

Location Assistance: Osaka Location Assistance Consultants

Production:
Asmik-Ace Entertainment
Beyond C.
Rentrak Japan
Studio 4°C

Promotion: Madhouse Studios

Software Assistance: discreet

English staff 
English companies 
(none)
 

Distributor: Madman Entertainment Pty. Ltd. (Australia & New Zealand)

English cast 
(none)
German staff 
German companies 
(none)
 

Distributor: Rapid Eye Movie (REM)

German cast 
(none)
 
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