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Satoshi Kon passes away

Satoshi Kon passes away
25 Aug 2010 10:57:55

According to the ANN the famous Japanese director Satoshi Kon has died.


Jim Vowles, a member of the Otakorp Board of Directors for the Otakon convention, has announced on Tuesday that director Satoshi Kon has passed away from pancreatic cancer yesterday at the age of 46. The staff of Otakon confirmed his passing with MADHOUSE studio founder Masao Maruyama. Before Yasuhiro Takeda (from GAINAX) had wrote on his Twitter account on Tuesday night in Japan that an important director of the studio had suddenly passed away.

During his life, Kon was responsible for a numer of high-profile animated efforts featuring his distinctive themes and styles, not least the movies Perfect Blue and Paprika, as well as the Paranoia Agent television series.

Kon began working as a manga creator on such works as Kaikisen (1990) before deciding to delve into the anime industry with the art design of Hiroyuki Kitakubo and Katsuhiro Otomo's Roujin Z video in 1991. He then worked on the script and art direction of "Magnetic Rose," a segment of Otomo's 1995 science-fiction anthology film Memories.

Kon first drew worldwide attention with his feature film directorial debut, the psychological suspense film Perfect Blue, in 1997. He would follow that with a string of critically acclaimed anime projects: Millennium Actress (2001), Tokyo Godfathers (2003), Paranoia Agent (2004), and Paprika (2006). At the time of his passing, Kon was working at MADHOUSE on a new feature film called Yume-Miru Kikai.

ANN interviewedKon in 2008 as he was beginning work on Yume-Miru Kikai.

According to information based on Anime News Network & uk-anime.net.
Also otakaon thread of director.
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