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Mind Game (movie)

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©2004 MIND GAME Project


Alternative title:
マインド・ゲーム (Japanese)
心靈遊戲 (Chinese (Taiwan))
Objectionable content: Intense
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 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 of yakuza, only to have Nishi grasp a certain revelation. And, with his newly acquired 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: 712 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 191 votes (sub:177, dub:6, ?:2, raw:2, others:4
3 Spanish subtitled
1 Italian subtitled
)
 Excellent: 157 votes (sub:137, dub:10, raw:1, ?:1, edit.dub:1, others:7
3 Spanish subtitled
2 French subtitled
1 German subtitled
1 Russian dubbed
)
 Very good: 143 votes (sub:135, dub:3, raw:2, others:3
2 Spanish subtitled
1 Turkish Sub subtitled
)
 Good: 100 votes (sub:91, dub:5, raw:2, others:2
1 German dubbed
1 Polish subtitled
)
 Decent: 45 votes (sub:42, dub:1, others:2
1 Chinese Mandarin subtitled
1 Polish subtitled
)
 So-so: 20 votes (sub:18, dub:2)
 Not really good: 15 votes (sub:12, ?:2, others:1
1 Portuguese subtitled
)
 Weak: 15 votes (sub:13, dub:1, others:1
1 German subtitled
)
 Bad: 12 votes (sub:10, raw:1, dub:1)
 Awful: 8 votes (sub:8)
 Worst ever: 6 votes (sub:6)
Seen in part or in whole by 985 users, rank: #1254 (of 10163)
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.969 (Very good), std. dev.: 2.1211, rank: #742 (of 10330)
Weighted mean: 7.926 (Very good), rank: #724 (of 10330) (seen all: 7.99 / seen some: 5.73 / won't finish: 3.29)
Bayesian estimate: 7.918 (Very good), rank: #491 (of 7760)
Running time: 104 minutes
Vintage: 2004-08-07
Premiere date:
2004-08-07 (Japan)
2006-01-21 (Italy - Future Film Festival)
2021-10-28 (Taiwan)
2024-06-26 (Poland, Festiwal Animator)
Ending Theme:
"MIND GAME" by Seiichi Yamamoto & Fushigi Robot
Insert song:
"Atarashii Hito" (あたらしいひと) by Rashinban
Links: We have 1
Trivia: We have 7
Review:
Mind Game DVD (Jun 23, 2009)
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Blu-ray (Region A)
    Masaaki Yuasa Five Films (Blu-ray) 2023-12-19 (from $59.99)
    Mind Game (Sub.Blu-ray + DVD) 2018-08-28 (from $25.33)
DVD (Region 4)
    Mind Game (Sub.DVD) 2008-12-03

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Masaaki Yuasa
Original Manga: Robin Nishi
Character Design: Yūichirō Sueyoshi
Art Director: Tōru Hishiyama
Chief Animation Director: Yūichirō Sueyoshi
Animation Director: Masahiko Kubo (asst.)
Cgi Director: Keisuke Sasagawa
Executive producer: Yasushi Shiina
Producer: Eiko Tanaka

Associate producer: Michael Arias
Color design: Tomoko Washida
Editing: Keiko Mizuta
In-Between Animation:
Aki Kobayashi
Akie Tsutsumi
Akina Iinuma
Akira Sotoya
Asako Aoki
Asami Watanabe
Asuka Manabe
Asuka Shimizu
Atsushi Komatsu
Ayako Ishihara
Ayumi Fujishita
Ayumi Shiraishi
Ayumi Tsukamoto
Chiharu Haraguchi
Chika Okada
Chiyo Imamaki
Chizuko Kusunoki
Daiki Ohno
Daisuke Kitaguchi
Emiko Iwayanagi
Eriko Shibata
Eriko Uchiyama
Fumiko Suzuki
Fumiko Tateyama
Hayato Hashiguchi
Hidemi Kanazawa
Hiroaki Nakajima
Hiroyo Yamamoto
Hisashi Yamamoto
Hitomi Fujii
Hitomi Satō
Hitoshi Katsura
Ippei Ichii
Junko Sanuki
Kanako Daigen
Kaoru Horigane
Kasumi Hara
Katsumasa Yokomine
Kazufumi Tanaka
Kazuko Hayakawa
Kazuma Kikuchi
Kazuya Kimura
Kazuya Nakamura
Kei Ōhashi
Keiko Ichihara
Keiko Inoue
Keiko Katou
Keiko Oyama
Kengo Matsunami
Kenji Hashimoto
Kiyomi Ishiwata
Kotoe Saitō
Kouyou Uetani
Kunihiko Kimura
Kunitoshi Ishii
Machi Ichihara
Maiko Matsumura
Makoto Iino
Manabu Shioda
Manami Itō
Marie Ino
Mariko Horie
Masaru Sano
Masashi Koizuka
Masato Nishikawa
Masatoshi Fujimoto
Maya Matsuura
Midori Saitō
Miho Uemura
Mika Kinoshita
Mika Yamamoto
Minako Sasaki
Miwa Arai
Mizuka Takahashi
Mizuki Maedomari
Narihito Sekikawa
Natsumi Tamura
Nobushige Inoshita
Nobutaka Masuda
Norie Nakano
Noriko Sugiyama
Rei Ikagawa
Rie Niidome
Rika Nagasawa
Ritsuko Shiina
Riyo Horiguchi
Ryo Hokama
Ryosuke Kimiya
Sachiko Iwata
Saki Sadamori
Satomi Kani
Satoshi Tezuka
Satsuki Muramatsu
Sayaka Shimomaki
Sayaka Toda
Seisuke Yoshimatsu
Shigeki Kimoto
Shin'ichi Ōmura
Shinichi Yokota
Shinya Kokaji
Shouta Matsushita
Shunichi Imoto
Shuta Osabe
Sōichirō Sako
Takashi Sakaguchi
Takayuki Hida
Takayuki Kawaguchi
Takehiko Kageyama
Takeyoshi Omagari
Terumi Kawabe
Tomoko Isobe
Tomoko Sugata
Tomoyo Hasegawa
Tomoyuki Ōshita
Tsutomu Shibutani
Yohei Nakano
Yoshihiko Taniguchi
Yoshiko Ando
Yoshiko Hamada
Yoshiko Imoto
Yoshiko Shimizu
Yoshimi Sagawa
Yoshinori Deno
Youhei Sasaki
Yousuke Nakajima
Yuichi Hirano
Yūichirō Ōtsubo
Yukari Kaku
Yukari Sannomiya
Yuki Fujita
Yuki Imoto
Yuki Terano
Yukie Hiyamizu
Yukie Watanabe
Yukio Ueto
Yūko Danki
Yūko Hineno
Yūko Kobori
Yūko Takahashi
Yumi Funamoto
Yumi Sudarehata
Yusuke Ishizuka
Yutaka Sumi
Yuuko Furuno
Yuuko Kamiyama
In-between Animation Supervision: Mutsuko Kajigaya
In-Between Check:
Sae Niratsuka
Sae Nirazuka
Music Artist: Yōko Kanno ("Rhapsody")
Music Director: Shinichirō Watanabe
Production Desk: Takashi Yamao
Production manager: Makoto Usugane
Production Supervision: Marimi Sakurai
Setting: Masahiko Kubo
Sound Effects: Kōji Kasamatsu
Visual Director: Kōji Morimoto (Mindgame Remix)
Koji Imada as Nishi

Jouji Shimaki as Yakuza boss
Rintarō Nishi as Yakuza
Sayaka Maeda as Myon
Takahashi Fujii as Ji-san (Old Man) 
Toshio Sakata as Father of Myon and Yan
Japanese companies
English companies
English staff
(none)
Broadcaster: Toonami (subtitled)
Distributor:
Madman Entertainment (Australia & New Zealand) 
Shout! Factory (USA/Canada)
Internet Streaming:
Criterion Channel (via GKids)
Hoopla
Screen Anime (United Kingdom and Ireland; February 2021)
VRV (United States, subtitled)
Licensed by:
Anime Limited (UK/Ireland)
GKIDS (USA/Canada)
Madman Entertainment (Australia/New Zealand)
English cast
(none)
French staff
French cast
ADR Director: Grégory Laisné
Translation: Yukio Reuter

Adaptation: Marie Ryckebusch
French companies
Distributor: Potemkine
Dubbing: WanTake
Licensed by:
@Anime (Blu-ray Disc)
agnès b. Cinéma ! (DVD)
Spanish staff
Spanish companies
(none)
Internet Streaming:
Filmin (Spain)
YouTube (Latin America)
Spanish cast
(none)
Italian staff
Italian cast
Dubbing Director: Riccardo Bambini
Translation: Ruben Baita

Dialogues: Riccardo Bambini
Dubbing Engineer: Davide De Luca
Synchronization: Davide De Luca

Emma Grasso as Hiroshi

Alberto Pagnotta as Radio DJ
Alessandro Mazzanti as Nishi (child)
Andrea Lopez as Affiliato A
Cristiana Esposito as Madre di Myon
David Vivanti as Signore
Marco Bresciani as Padre di Myon
Marco Briglione as Radio DJ
Rurika Yamamoto as Moglie del signore
Italian companies
German staff
German cast
Dubbing Director: Michael Bartel
ADR Script: Michael Bartel
Mia Diekow as Myon

German companies
Distributor: Rapid Eye Movies (REM)
Dutch staff
Dutch companies
(none)
Distributor: Periscoop Film
Dutch cast
(none)

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