Masaaki Yuasa
(Mind Game, 2004)
Masaaki Yuasi started his career as an animator in the late 1980s and is celebrated as the director of the film version of Kureyon shinchan, a very popular TV anime series. Yuasa acknowledges his respect for the anime films of Hayao Miyazaki, especially his masterpiece Lupin the Third: Castle of Cagliostro. Mind Game (2004) is based on a manga of the same name by Nishi Robin, with music composed and performed by Seichi Yamamato, a member of the Boredoms, an infamous Osaka-based noise band.
Mind Game has a slapstick storyline delivered at a rapid pace with a meticulous juxtaposition of very different anime styles and methods.
Yuasa uses an elaborate combination of highly detailed, naturalistic drawings in the traditionof miyazaki, intercut with rudimentary drawings in a jerky, stop-action style; real time images complete with voice overs; wildly distorted cartoon styles, and so on. this dense visual style is combined with an equally complex narative that jumps around in time and space.
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