As you may or may not remember, I have wrote about this movie on here in the past, but Masaaki Yuasa's masterpiece feature film 'Mind Game' still lacks a distributor in the west, so unless you import the DVD from Japan (which has no English subtitles), there isn't much chance of seeing it at the moment. However, a YouTube member by the name of Zak78 has uploaded the entire film, separated into ten parts but also available as a play list, and it's subtitled! While this by no means the best way to see the film; in a tiny compressed internet video, for most people it will have to do until it one day shows itself outside of Japan. Spread the love on this fantastic film, and maybe the distributors will start to listen! Zak also has some other interesting looking anime films and OVA's on his YouTube account as well, which may be worth a look as they don't appear to fall into the usual generic path a lot of anime we see released over here does.
Friday, October 27, 2006
Mind Game on YouTube
As you may or may not remember, I have wrote about this movie on here in the past, but Masaaki Yuasa's masterpiece feature film 'Mind Game' still lacks a distributor in the west, so unless you import the DVD from Japan (which has no English subtitles), there isn't much chance of seeing it at the moment. However, a YouTube member by the name of Zak78 has uploaded the entire film, separated into ten parts but also available as a play list, and it's subtitled! While this by no means the best way to see the film; in a tiny compressed internet video, for most people it will have to do until it one day shows itself outside of Japan. Spread the love on this fantastic film, and maybe the distributors will start to listen! Zak also has some other interesting looking anime films and OVA's on his YouTube account as well, which may be worth a look as they don't appear to fall into the usual generic path a lot of anime we see released over here does.
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Thanks for drawing attention to this! I'm a great fan of Mind Game, thanks to Ben Ettinger's Anipages, and a fansub copy of the movie. However, I thought the Japanese DVD did have subtitles. I could be wrong, but I was planning on buying it, and would rather spend the money on that new Gauche the Cellist release on the Ghibli label.
It's baffling that Mind Game is still an unknown quantity, but I suspect that anime fandom in the US is a lot more stodgy and rigid than they'd like to admit. At least, that's been my experience where I live. There's a far greater range of animation from Japan, apart from naked chicks and robots. It usually seems like pulling hair to get the anime kids to notice, though.
We'll cross our fingers for an American release one of these days. Where's Criterion when we need 'em?
I'm just presuming the Japanese release has no English subtitles, to be honest. If it does have them, then may have to hunt down a copy.
Your right about the fandom, too. Most of them are not interested if it isn't the latest Inuyasha type thing, and a lot of real gems like this gets unnoticed.
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