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Anime Extraordinaire
Satoshi Kon is a filmmaker who relishes the opportunity to pull the rug out from under audiences and give them what they least expect. He stands as a skilled, highly original, and talented figure in a world overpopulated by giant mecha and menacing tentacled beasties. Kon's films are alternately haunting, thought-provoking, and oddly endearing, and are a must-see for anyone who has simply dismissed animation as child's play or fan-boy fodder. A native of Hokkaido, Japan, who grew up with a strong affection for manga, the aspiring artist was influenced early on by such anime mainstays as Yamato and Gundam. Upon graduating from high school, Kon attended Musashino Art University, where he studied Visual Art Communication Design. Though, by this point, Kon's interest in manga had given way to an increasing interest in feature film, it was during his college years that the aspiring animator made his debut as a comic artist with work for Young Magazine. A fondness for the films of Terry Gilliam gave the keen-eyed illustrator a strong knack for composition, and after gaining more experience, Kon landed a job as a set designer for the animated sci-fi comedy Roujin Z. Similar work on Hashire Meros and Patlabor 2 was soon to follow, with Kon eventually moving up to screenwriter with the "Magnetic Rose" segment of the collaborative sci-fi anime feature Memories.
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Satoshi Kon Bios and Interviews
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