From the animators of Steamboy, Mind Game is a stream of consciousness film, with a 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 that gets swallowed by a whale. These are not normal people. While you′re watching this movie every one of these twists makes perfect sense, but more important than the story are the rich characters. Mine Game contains all their hopes and dreams; these characters are so real they seem 4-D, not 3-D. This fast and funny, smutty and sexy, bizarre and hypnotic, flick is from first-time director Masaaki Yuasa.