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...response will start before you finish your sentence. His eyes will narrow, his lips will curl into a sneer, and with a quiet menace he'll recite the line that has become his mantra through countless interviews and film-festival question-and-answer sessions: "I'm an anim? director. I don't do anything else. People can take it or leave...
...anyone who has had the chance to see his movies, the choice is easy. In recent years Kon has been expanding the boundaries of his medium, tackling themes traditionally untouched by anim?: criminal insanity, exploitation of women in popular culture and the fine line separating reality and illusion. In the process, he has created some of the most original?and grownup?animation ever released. Kon's third and latest feature, Tokyo Godfathers, recently opened in Japan to packed cinemas and looks certain to expand his fan base beyond the connoisseurs who have formed his core audience...
...neat goatee and long hair pulled back in a sleek ponytail, the 40-year-old Kon takes pains to set himself apart from the stereotypical otaku animator who's too immersed in his cartoon world to ever change out of slippers and pajamas. But Kon's distance from the anim? mainstream is more than sartorial; he is one of the rare animators whose creative point of reference isn't other animation or manga. Instead, he takes his inspiration from reality: "My ideas for movies come from the world that I live in. When I walk down the street...
...details that Takizawa is most proud of in his collaboration with Champion is the way he reinterpreted the sweatshirt maker's embroidered "C" monogram into a tricolor abstraction. Shoemaker Mihara, too, stamped his sneakers with a cartoon rendition of Puma's feline logo on the soles?an anim?-inspired touch that has won plaudits in Japanese fashion magazines...
...early to tell whether the sequel will outstrip the original, but the advance buzz is positive. Bayside Shakedown 2 is scheduled to open on 400 of the country's 2,600 movie-house screens. That's an unusually high number; Hayao Miyazaki's anim? film Spirited Away, the top Japanese movie ever, with $258 million in box-office gross, debuted on 320 screens. As of last week, advance ticket sales were three times Spirited Away's over the same period...