Critically acclaimed animation director Satoshi Kon, creator of “Millennium Actress,” “Paprika” and “ Tokyo Godfathers,” died of pancreatic cancer Tuesday in Tokyo. He was 46. The ...

Satoshi Kon, who passed away from pancreatic cancer at 46 on 24th August, 2010, ... Katsuhiro Otomo, requested him to direct one of three short films featured in Otomo’s Memories anthology, ...

A love letter to cinema and memory, Satoshi Kon’s Millennium Actress is one of anime’s most powerful and emotionally resonant ...

Satoshi Kon only completed four feature films, but his work inspired fellow filmmakers including Darren Aronofsky, whose films Black Swan and Requiem for a Dream were influenced by Kon’s Perfect ...

Satoshi Kon created some of the most unique anime content of all time. ... Memories Three Short Stories, and Kon Wrote the ...

Satoshi Kon was born in Hokkaido, Japan, on Oct. 12, 1963. Intending to study painting, he enrolled at the Musashino Art University, but, as he told the Web site Anime News Network ...

Satoshi Kon had a long history in the world of both anime and manga, ... alongisde major feature length films such as Memories, Perfect Blue, Tokyo Godfathers, and Paprika to name a few.

The great Japanese animator Satoshi Kon died young in 2010 but his work continues to dazzle on the internet. By J. Hoberman Looking over the lists critics have made of films and filmmakers that ...

Satoshi Kon, who passed away from pancreatic cancer at 46 on 24th August, 2010, was, to me, ... to blur the worlds of these films as if they were her own memories. ...