Mind Game vs Soul
Soul has the higher audience score (8.1/10 against 7.5/10 for Mind Game). Soul is the shorter watch at 1h 41m compared with 1h 43m. Mind Game is the older of the two (2004 against 2020). Both are animation, comedy, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Mind Game
Soul| Mind Game | Soul | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.5/10 | ★ 8.1/10 |
| Year | 2004 | 2020 |
| Length | 1h 43m | 1h 41m |
| Genres | Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance | Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy |
| Country | Japan | – |
| Director | Masaaki Yuasa | Pete Docter |
| Main cast | Koji Imada, Sayaka Maeda, Takashi Fujii, Seiko Takuma, Tomomitsu Yamaguchi | Daveed Diggs, Alice Braga, Wes Studi, Rachel House, Angela Bassett |
Synopsis
Mind Game
Nishi is a loser who has a crush on his childhood girlfriend. After an encounter with the Japanese mafia, he journeys to heaven and back, and ends up trapped in an even more unlikely place.
Soul
Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful audition at the Half Note Club, he suddenly gets into an accident that separates his soul from his body and is transported to the You Seminar, a center in which souls develop and gain passions before being transported to a newborn child. Joe must enlist help from the other souls-in-training, like 22, a soul who has spent eons in the You Seminar, in order to…