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MIND GAME
Ped Mall -Scene 1
Saturday, Apr 14, 2018 11:00 PM
After a deadly encounter with two yakuza, a loser with a crush on his childhood girlfriend goes to heaven and back, embarking on a psychedlic self-discovery experience with his friends. Part of Bijou After Hours series - FREE for UI students and $6.50 for the general public.
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General Admission Late Night - Public - $7.08

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Part of Bijou After Hours series. FREE for UI students (present student ID at box office) and $6.50 for the general public.

"A virtuoso narrative loop-the-loop that travels through a phantasmagoric catalog of animation styles, Mind Game is not just one of the most fantastically experimental anime features seen stateside, it's a cousin to the cartoon head trips of the '60s and '70s like Yellow Submarine, Fritz the Cat, or Fantastic Planet, replete with grand meta-physical themes, gloriously extended avant-psychedelic sequences, and Japanified bits of Bakshian bawdiness." - Ed Halter, Village Voice


Buckle in and prepare to surrender yourself to an exhilarating and wildly entertaining ride. Cult classic Mind Game is an explosion of unconstrained expression - gloriously colorful images ricochet in rapid fire associations, like Masaaki Yuasa's brain splattered onto the screen in all its goopy glory. Audiences will begin to grasp what they are in for early on as loser Nishi, too wimpy to try to save his childhood sweetheart from gangsters, is shot in the butt 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 like hell in the other direction and returns to Earth a changed man, driven to live each moment to the fullest.



Series Info
Series:Bijou After Hours
Film Info
Rating:NR
Runtime:103 minutes
Director:Masaaki Yuasa, Koji Morimoto
Year Released:2004
Production Country:Japan
Language:Japanese with subtitles