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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
Yuasa again turns one feverish night of unspoken attraction into a headlong, shape-shifting comic odyssey, with the same exuberant visual invention and romantic emotional core.
02
Why this pick
Its frantic, rule-breaking animation and gleefully absurd escalations match Mind Game’s appetite for velocity, irreverence, and images that seem to mutate faster than the story can contain them.
03
Why this pick
A wildly designed city becomes the canvas for kinetic fantasy and bruised tenderness; it has Mind Game’s emotional directness beneath an intensely stylized animated world.
04
Why this pick
Its mythic quest unfolds through dazzling transformations, saturated color, and fearless visual abstraction—an ideal match for the sensory freedom and animated audacity of Mind Game.
05
Why this pick
This handmade nightmare is far darker and slower, but its constantly metamorphosing imagery offers a similarly fearless sense that animation can reinvent reality moment by moment.
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01 / THE STORY
Nishi is a 20-year-old loser with dreams of becoming a comic book artist. One late evening he runs into his childhood crush, Myon, on the subway. She tells Nishi she is due to marry. Nishi has flashbacks of exchanging love letters and messages with Myon and fantasizes declaring his love for her, but in reality fails to actually say anything.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Nishi (voice)
Jiisan (voice)
