Word: kon
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...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...
...ARTS Satoshi Kon: Animé's true grit...
...keeping with Kon's taste for offbeat topics, Tokyo Godfathers follows a makeshift family of homeless people?transvestite ex-drag queen Hana, scruffy middle-aged bum Gin and runaway teenager Miyuki?who discover an abandoned baby in a garbage heap and embark on a search for its parents. It's a briskly paced comedy with a gentle core and a prickly surface. ("You can't get milk from an old queer's tits," yells Gin, mocking Hana's burgeoning maternal instincts.) Set during Christmas in a gorgeously detailed, snow-softened Tokyo, it's also one of the most affectionate, meticulous...
...With his signature black turtleneck, 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...
...Kon's refusal to accept the conventional boundaries of his field that encouraged Masao Maruyama, founder and president of Mad House animation studio, to choose him to direct Perfect Blue, a paranoid psycho-thriller about a teen idol dragged through the sleazier realms of Japanese pop culture. The film turned out to be Kon's breakthrough. Until then, he had been making slow but steady progress through the industry, working his way up from being an assistant manga artist to drawing his own manga to directing occasional episodes of animated TV shows. One of these episodes caught Maruyama...