Mind Game (2004)

Mind Game: Directed by Masaaki Yuasa, Kôji Morimoto. With Kôji Imada, Sayaka Maeda, Takashi Fujii, Seiko Takuma. After a deadly encounter with two yakuza, a loser with a crush on his childhood girlfriend goes to heaven and back, embarking on a psychedelic self-discovery experience with her and his friends.

“This movie is to a human mind what solving a really complex formula is to a physicist: an eureka! What I mean by this is this movie has all the elements of a life changing experience. You go expecting another entertaining dime-a-dozen type of film but you come out bewildered instead. Okay sure maybe this is a bit of an overstatement but it deserves some overstating since it only gets a poor review of not even 8 stars here on IMDb. I decided to give it a full 10.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI am not going to spoil the experience for you and I will just to sum it up in a few short words. This is the story of a loser named Nishi who bumps into his old flame while sheu0026#39;s being chased by some bad guys. They eventually end up the girlu0026#39;s family restaurant where bad guys show up things go horribly wrong and everything changes for everyone.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI found the little snippets in between the story to be most valuable rather than the story itself. Although you need to follow the story closely to understand the snippets. Is is the little things that count. This movie is a lesson. Maybe some sort of donu0026#39;t do what I did type of lesson I donu0026#39;t know. But whatever it is I feel is the only drug you can take visually. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eEnjoy.”