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- Roujin Z. Roujin Z served as Satoshi Kon’s primary stepping stone into the world of anime. As the film’s art director and set designer, he oversaw the film’s visual aesthetic and handled the production of all artwork and layouts.
- Memories (Magnetic Rose) After being one of the driving forces behind an animated film, Kon felt prepared to take on a more prominent role in a future endeavour.
- Tokyo Godfathers. Tokyo Godfathers is Kon’s masterful attempt at a family movie, a Christmas movie at that. It is a lighthearted comedy where a group of homeless people find themselves with an abandoned baby and set the goal to return him to his parents.
- Paranoia Agent. Here we see Satoshi Kon in his natural habitat, directing a series that, at first, seems all plain jane with a simple plot, and then flips you over, turns you around, and discombobulates you, making you wonder where you are and what you’re doing.
Website. konstone.s-kon.net. Satoshi Kon (今 敏, Kon Satoshi, October 12, 1963 – August 24, 2010) was a Japanese film director, animator, screenwriter and manga artist from Sapporo, Hokkaido, and a member of the Japanese Animation Creators Association (JAniCA). [1] He was a graduate of the Graphic Design department of the Musashino Art ...
- Perfect Blue (1997), Shocking The Industry
- Millennium Actress (2002), The Running Woman
- Tokyo Godfathers (2004), A Christmas Comedy
- Paprika (2006), A Mind-Bending, Time-Altering Finale
- A Post-Modern Man
Staring off as a manga artist and working his way up in the industry, Kon had worked with many respected industry professionals, including Mamoru Oshii (Ghost in the Shell) and Katshuiro Otomo (Akira). In 1995, Kon was a scriptwriter, layout artist and art director on the short film Magnetic Rose, that was part of Otomo’s omnibus Memories. It was i...
Kon’s wanted his next film to be another adaptation, a novel by Yasutaka Tsutsui called Paprika, but the distribution company went bankrupt, which put the project on the back bench. Kon then started to work on his second film, Millennium Actress. In Millennium Actress, two filmmakers have tracked down a famous retired movie star named Chiyoko Fujiw...
Straight after Millennium actress, Kon started working on his third film Tokyo Godfathers, a comedy, drama and Christmas film about three homeless people living in Tokyo. Delving into completely new themes and ideas, Kon co-wrote the script with Keiki Nobumoto, who was head scriptwriter for Cowboy Bebop and Wolf’s Rain. Nobumoto made a massive cont...
In the same year of Tokyo Godfathers, Kon also released a thirteen episode anime called Paranoia Agent. It carried the same themes and atmosphere of Perfect Blue – various characters shred the same issues as Mima, not knowing their fantasies from their realities. The story revolved around a myth of “shounen bat”: members of the public where being a...
In May 2010, Satoshi Kon was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and given half a year to live. At the time he was working on a new film titled Dreaming Machine;however with not long left he spent it at his home. He composed a final message to his fans that was uploaded to his blog upon his death. He died on August 24 at the age of 46. Kon‘s craft of ...
Nov 8, 2015 · The late Satoshi Kon was amongst the foremost prominent Japanese animators, whose works transcended the world of anime and manga, thus creating a modern division of the genre, which chiefly addressed to a mature audience.
Dec 22, 2020 · Ten years after his death, animation director Satoshi Kon continues to influence filmmakers around the world. What is its charm? We spoke to Masao Maruyama, a producer who has been working alongside him, and Sung Hsin-ying, who directed the Taiwanese animated film ``Chee on the Happiness Road''.
Kon died in 2010, having “pushed animation in ways that aren’t really possible in live action, not just elastic images but elastic editing, a unique way of moving from image to image, scene to scene.”.
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Oct 22, 2015 · Now, five years after his passing Dark Horse Comics bring us the English language version of The Art of The Satoshi Kon. This book was originally released in Japanese back in the year he died, but is only now making its English debut.
