The screenplay was written by Sadayuki Murai, who utilized a seamless connection between illusion and reality to create a " Trompe-l'œil kind of film". Having the same estimated budget as Perfect Blue (approximately 120 million yen), Millennium Actress garnered higher critical and financial success than its predecessor and earned numerous awards. The film centers on a retired actress who mysteriously withdraws from the public eye at the peak of her career. The distribution company for the North American release was DreamWorks-affiliated Go Fish Pictures. In 2002, Kon's second film, Millennium Actress, was released to the public. Coincidentally, Kon's next work would also feature a film studio going bankrupt. However, these plans were stalled when the distribution company for Perfect Blue (Rex Entertainment) went bankrupt. įollowing Perfect Blue, Kon considered adapting the 1993 Yasutaka Tsutsui novel Paprika into his next film. The screenplay was written by Sadayuki Murai, who worked in the idea of a blurred border between the real world and imagination. With the permission of the original author, Yoshikazu Takeuchi, Kon was allowed to make any changes he wanted, except for keeping the three elements of the novel ("idol," "horror" and "stalker"). A suspense story centered on a pop idol and Kon was initially unsatisfied with the first script based on the original and requested to make changes to it. It was the first film by Kon to be produced by Madhouse, and producer Masao Maruyama invited him because he liked the episode Kon directed in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. In 1997, Kon began work on his directorial debut Perfect Blue (based on Yoshikazu Takeuchi's novel of the same name). : 17 After this work, Kon ended his career as a manga artist and devoted himself to making anime. However, as the series progressed, the opinions of Kon and Oshii became divided, and the series went on hiatus and ended unfinished. The manga was serialized in the monthly anime magazine Animage starting in 1994. Kon then worked with Mamoru Oshii on the manga Seraphim: Wings of 266,613,336, which was written by Oshii and drawn by Kon. ![]() He made his directorial debut with episode 5 of the 1993–1994 OVA JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, which he also wrote the script and storyboarded. Kon worked as one of five layout artists on Mamoru Oshii's Patlabor 2: The Movie in 1993, along with other animated films. This was the first time he adopted the theme of "the fusion of fantasy and reality" as the theme of his work. He began working around 1992 as a scriptwriter, layout artist and background designer for Magnetic Rose (directed by Koji Morimoto), one of three short films in Katsuhiro Otomo's omnibus Memories (released in 1995). ![]() In 1991, Kon worked in anime for the first time as an animator and on background design for the film Roujin Z, which was written by Otomo. After graduating from college in 1987, Kon authored the single-volume manga Kaikisen (1990) and wrote the script for Otomo's live-action film World Apartment Horror. Afterward, he found work as Katsuhiro Otomo's assistant. While in college, Kon made his debut as a manga artist with the short manga Toriko (1984) and earned a runner-up spot in the 10th Annual Tetsuya Chiba Awards held by Young Magazine ( Kodansha). Kon entered the Graphic Design course of the Musashino Art University in 1982. While attending Hokkaido Kushiro Koryo High School, Kon aspired to become an animator. Kon was a classmate and close friend of manga artist Seihō Takizawa. Due to his father's job transfer, Kon's education from the fourth elementary grade up to the second middle-school grade was based in Sapporo. Satoshi Kon was born on October 12, 1963.
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