Mind Game

Nishi has always loved Myon since they were little. And now that he is an adult, he wants to pursue his dream of becoming a manga artist and marrying his childhood sweetheart. However, there is one problem. She has already been proposed to and thinks Nishi is a wimp. But when they meet the fiancé at her family's restaurant and accept him as a good guy, they run into some yakuza, after which Nishi has a certain epiphany.

With his newfound outlook on life, he, Myon, and her sister, Yan, have adventures galore as they escape the yakuza in a most unlikely location.... Mind Game is the directorial debut of Masaaki Yuasa, which began his experimental anime oeuvre. The film is known as most typical of his style: by subjecting the physical world to characters' perceptions, emotion guides their appearance, colors, and backgrounds. This makes for an overwhelmingly colorful, psychedelic animated film in which Yuasa disregards natural laws.