Mind Game

Nishi, an awkward young manga artist in Osaka, has had on long-standing crush on Myon. Unfortunately, Myon has got a thing for rugged Ryo. Matters come to a head at her sister Yan's yakitori restaurant, in the presence of the girl's dissolute father — who happens to owe a bunch of money to a pair of creepy gangsters, who have come to collect.

Things get ugly, and Nishi is killed in a brutal, graphic fashion.

This should be the end of it, but it is just the beginning.

Pulling a fast one on God, Nishi hightails it back to Earth, where he replays the crime to his advantage, steals a car and grabs the girls.

Under a hail of yakuza gunfire, he bails off a bridge — and into the mouth of a whale.

There, he and his two female companions encounter a tenacious and lively old man who has set up camp in the beast's belly, longing to someday return to human company on dry land.

With no immediate exit available, the quartet make do — fishing, fighting, making love, weaving tales of strange happenings on faraway planets and dreaming of life in the real world.

Will they ever set foot there again?