Showtimes: 6/24, 6:30pm and 6/26, 1:30pm at the ImaginAsian [BUY TICKETS]
Eiko Tanaka, the producer of MIND GAME (and co-founder of STUDIO 4°C) will attend the screening.

You've heard hype before, but trust us when we say that MIND GAME is one of the
great animated films of all time. Produced by STUDIO 4°C (who did the animation
on the recent STEAMBOY), MIND GAME couldn't be more different from the slick
giant robots, mega-sized guns, and short-skirted schoolgirls that have come to
be associated with Japanese anime in the minds of Westerners. A
stream-of-consciousness, 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 and gets swallowed by a whale.
These are not normal people. But rather than playing fast and loose with its
story, while you're watching this movie every one of these twists makes perfect
sense. And the story isn't the point, really. The point is the characters, and
MIND GAME contains all their hopes and dreams; these characters are so real they
seem 4-D, not 3-D.

Fast and funny, smutty and sexy, bizarre and hypnotic, this flick from
first-time director Yuasa Masaaki only has one boring thing about it: music by
Seiichi Yamamoto of the Japanese noise band, The Boredoms. It's a movie that
exists to remind us that life is a miracle. And so is MIND GAME.

STUDIO 4°C is Japan 's leading animation studio led by producer Eiko Tanaka who worked as a line producer on Hayao Miyazaki's MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO and KIKI'S DELIVERY SERVICE. Renowned for their challenging, cutting-edge productions with quality, past titles include music video clips for Ken Ishii's EXTRA, Glay's SURVIVAL, short films such as NOISEMAN SOUND INSECT, EIKYU KAZOKU, DIGITAL JUICE and PIROPPO, and numerous commercials, promotional materials and game contents. STUDIO 4°C has also produced feature films which titles include; MEMORIES ('95), SPRIGGAN ('98) and PRINCESS ARETE ('01). In 2003, the studio produced THE MATRIX animation project, THE ANIMATRIX, of which 5 segments were created in-house. Having successfully showcased the quality of Japanese animation and its creators to the world, the studio went on to create the award-winning MIND GAME (‘04), a highly ambitious and innovative feature film which was released in the summer of 2004.

Taken from the fact that water is at its densest at that temperature, 4°C represents STUDIO 4°C's creative manifesto to "always create works that are dense with substance and quality."