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Buckle in and prepare to surrender yourself to an exhilarating and wildly entertaining ride. Cult classic Mind Game is an explosion of unconstrained expression—gloriously colorful images ricochet in rapid fire associations, like Masaaki Yuasa's brain splattered onto the screen in all its goopy glory. Audiences will begin to grasp what they are in for early on as loser Nishi, too wimpy to try to save his childhood sweetheart from gangsters, is shot in the butt by a soccer-playing psychopath, projecting Nishi into the afterlife. In this limbo, God—shown as a series of rapidly changing characters—tells him to walk toward the light. But Nishi runs like hell in the other direction and returns to Earth a changed man, driven to live each moment to the fullest. Bonus Content: Feature-Length Animat

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Set in the autumn of 1941 in Salty Creek, a fishing village in South Carolina, the film tells the dramatic story of interracial lovers swept up in the tides of history. Sophie is an artist who fishes and sells crabs to the townsfolk; the other, Mr. Ohta, appears in the town badly beaten and under mysterious circumstances, as World War II rages in Europe. Sophie, a native of Salty Creek, quickly becomes transfixed by Mr. Ohta and a friendship born of their mutual love of art blossoms into a delicate and forbidden courtship. As their secret relationship evolves, the war escalates tragically. When Pearl Harbor is bombed, a surge of misguided patriotism, bigotry and violence sweeps through the town, threatening Mr. Ohta's life. Three women, Sophie, the town matriarch and her housekeeper each with her own secret reject law and propriety, risking their lives with their actions. Based on the novel by Augusta Trobaugh This Blu-ray features surround sound, English subtitles for the deaf and hearing-impaired along with the official "Sophie and the Rising Sun" trailer.