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Mind Game

Part of the Saturday Night Anime Series

Saturday, June 24 · view days & times
Price: $10 | $8 ages 25 and under & senior* | $7.50 ArtsQuest Member
Venue: Frank Banko Alehouse Cinemas

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*Ages 25 and under & senior discounts apply at the box office only.

2004 | NR | 1 hr 43 min

Directed by: Masaaki Yuasa
Starring: Koji Imada, Sayaka Maeda, Takashi Fujii

MIND GAME is an explosion of unconstrained expression – gloriously colorful mages 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.

In Japanese with English subtitles

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Frank Banko Alehouse Cinemas
ArtsQuest Center
101 Founders Way
Bethlehem, PA 18015
610-297-7100
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