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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.
I've taken the liberty of translating the name of the film he was working on, Yume Miru Kikai, as Dreaming Machine, since it has no formal English title. He often refers to himself in the third person, as Satoshi or Satoshi Kon.
- The Early Years
- Gaining Ground
- His Opus
Kon burst onto the scene in 1984 with the two-part doujinshi Toriko - Prisoner, about kids forced into "rehab" in a dystopian society run by robot police. It won second place in Young Magazine's Tesuya Chiba Awards for new manga artists, which got the attention of none other than Katsuhiro Otomo. You don't just trust any college kid with helping yo...
Working as Otomo's assistant gave Kon his first ties to the film and anime industry. Otomo adapted Kon's original story for the 1991 live-action film World Apartment Horror (the manga adaptation of which is the only Kon manga still not published in the US yet) and hired him as an animator on Roujin Z. Working as an animator on Patlabor 2introduced ...
At the same time as he was drawing Seraphim, Kon had one final manga project that he held complete control over, and it's his most impressive one: the appropriately-named Opus. It tells the story of a mangaka (manga artist) who can't decide how to finish his masterwork and ends up magically sucked into the world of his own manga. It's the clearest ...
Mar 2, 2016 · In this beginner’s guide to Satoshi Kon, a closer examination and short analysis will be made upon each of this four films, accompanied by a chronological overview of Kon’s career and achievements.
Nov 8, 2015 · The former becomes evident in his nightmarish worlds of terror that are based on concepts like fixation, publicity and the perspective of reality and personal identity, while the latter is clear through the mixture of fantasy and reality in the surrealistic environments of his movies.
Apr 1, 2022 · The Japanese director known for influential films like ‘Paprika’ and ‘Perfect Blue’ died of pancreatic cancer in 2010.
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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.”.
