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Report: Satoshi Kon Dead From Cancer at Age 47

By AnimeEv 1 year, 9 months ago

Satoshi Kon, the visionary director behind perennial Ani.me office watchers like Perfect Blue, Millenium Actress, and others has passed away according to a tweet by GAINAX studio staff member Yasuhiro Takeda. This was confirmed by Jim Vowles, who is a member of the Otakorp Board of Directors for the Otakon.

Kon’s brilliant works were a great mix of horror, psychological trauma, gore, and fantastic realism that held a distorted mirror up to the face of modern Japanese society. It has also been implicated that Kon’s Paprika was a primary influence on Christopher Nolan’s recent Inception. He will be sorely missed by the staff here at ani.me and we would like to offer his friends, family, and colleagues our deepest sympathy at this time.

A memorial write-up from one of our founding partners is now available here.

An article about his final blog posting is available here.

Update: MangaUK has also confirmed it on their twitter account:

#PerfectBlue #MillenniumActress #GraveOfTheFirelies #Paprika 4 of my all time favourite animes. #SatoshiKon was a genius and will be missed.

The original Japanese twitter quote is as follows:

今敏さんの訃報をさっきmixiで読んだ。４７歳。もう吉祥寺の飲み屋で会う事がないのか。悲しすぎる。