Satoshi Kon

Director

“It's true that the attitude of directors towards how to employ CG differs from person to person. In fact I don't think that type of blending has become a natural part of our everyday lives. Our wish is for analog animation to swallow digital animation.”

Biography

Satoshi Kon is a film director from Kushiro, Hokkaidō, Japan. Kon attended Musashino College of the Arts and intended to become a painter. After college, he worked with Katsuhiro Otomo on the manga World Apartment Horror. Kon entered the anime industry by working as set designer for Roujin Z (1991), for which Otomo was the screenwriter and mechanical designer. Kon’s early work was strongly influenced by Otomo due to Kon’s experience with him. Afterwards, Kon made his screenwriting debut with Magnetic Rose, a section of the anthology film Memories.

In 1997, Satoshi Kon released his directorial debut film Perfect Blue, which was turned into a feature film from an original video animation in the middle of production. His next film, Millennium Actress, was released in 2001 to several film festivals and won numerous awards. Having created two films that blend dreams and reality, Kon decided to work on a more linear and traditional… read more

Films on MUBI

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Paprika

Tokyo Godfathers

Millennium Actress

Perfect Blue

Memories

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Shamus-

16Feb13

Kon's characters have a surprisingly unified sense of purpose despite the extravagantly protean surroundings: there is a consistent pattern of actions and motives superimposed on a variety of unpredictable environments, fictional or "real".

mirzafahmi

2Nov12

berag

Coheed 2.5

30Oct12

It seems paradoxical that Paranoia Agent was removed from the site yet technically works like Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz and The Decalogue are effectively short length TV series, and Out 1 is longer than most anime series by length. I think we need to question the apparent 'differences' between film and television, especially when submissions I added to my collection of all the anime on the site are removed. The structure of these moving works needs to be scrutinised beyond whether they are over 13 to 26 episodes or more rather than a single 90 or so minute chunk, and more in terms of what is truly cinematic and not just daytime television churned out to pad out the cable channels..

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Jorge Didaco, Lights in the Dusk, Mr. Arkadin, Ricardo

Johnde

1Nov12

TV series are not allowed. TV miniseries (Alexanderplatz, Band of Brothers, Riget, etc), director anthologies like Masters of Horror (I'm in the murk if this category is allowed though), and TV movies are allowed. All of this will cease to exist however once TV series are incorporated onto MUBI in the upcoming future. In terms of the possibilities that that entails, the list to me is enormous (streaming TV shows), but I have no idea if it'll be more than just having pages for TV series with stills and cast info. Hope this helps.
Malik

16Jan13

Another anime series The Tatami Galaxy is in the database oddly enough.