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...also have much in common, starting with a passion for storytelling. Despite an occasional scene with a point to make?for example, a homeless tent pitched in the shadow of Tokyo's glittering city hall?Kon's penchant for realistic settings and characters doesn't make him a social crusader. "I like drawing pictures and telling stories," he says. "I'm not trying to save Japan; I just want to show people how things look to me." For all his impatience with Miyazaki's morals and happy endings, it's hard to avoid the impression that Kon took some cues...
...this juxtaposition of the miraculous and the ordinary?appropriate enough considering the Christmas setting?that gives Tokyo Godfathers its unique character. That even the grittiest scenes possess a careful beauty is the result of meticulous work by Kon's team of artists, considered by many to be the best in the business. Chief among them is Kon's longtime art director Nobutaka Ike. To prepare for the task of rending Tokyo into anim?, Ike spent months prowling the city with a digital camera. In the process he discovered the beauty of Tokyo's grungy, cluttered back alleys?normally passed over...
...Kon's next project is a TV series that is due to air early next year. It promises to be a kind of Twin Peaks for Japanese animation, bringing Kon's work to a wider audience and raising the standards of prime-time TV in the process. "We're going to let him keep doing what he wants, and I think the audiences will eventually come to him," says Mad House president Maruyama. That may finally be about to happen. Millennium Actress and Tokyo Godfathers made the release-date cutoff for this season's Oscars, and industry insiders are whispering...
...ARTS Satoshi Kon: Animé's true grit...
...ARTS Satoshi Kon: Animé's true grit...