Film · 2004 · Films · 2000s
Mind Game
Scored from 32 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
Nishi, a timid twenty-year-old aspiring manga artist in Osaka, reunites with his childhood crush Myon at her family's yakitori stand and learns she is engaged to another man. When yakuza arrive to collect her father's debt, Nishi is shot dead, then refuses the afterlife, races past God and throws himself back into his own body to play the scene again. He escapes with Myon and her sister Yan in a stolen car, and the getaway ends with all three swallowed alive by a whale, where an old castaway has been living for thirty years. Masaaki Yuasa's debut feature, adapted from Robin Nishi's manga, tells it in constantly shifting animation styles, from rotoscoped faces to crude scribble.
Mind Game is a 2004 adventure, animation and comedy film. Its listed language is Japanese. It was made in Japan. The runtime is 103 minutes.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,846 2000s films, not against the whole corpus. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 199 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. Only 32 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 32 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where Mind Game lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against Films · 2000s (7,847 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 32.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
