one of my favourite directors just died

[foxtongue]

Anime director Satoshi Kon dies, aged 46.

Kon passed away passed yesterday after losing a battle with pancreatic cancer.

The filmmaker's work includes Perfect Blue, Millennium Actress and Paprika.

Kon was working on fantasy-adventure animation, "Yumemiru Kikai (Dream Machine)", due for release in 2011, at the time of his death. Featuring a futuristic adventure starring a robot, it would have been his first work aimed at children after he produced a series of what he called "animations which adults can enjoy".

Comments

[tweak23.livejournal.com]

Awww, that's really sad. Perfect Blue was pretty much the only Anime film I ever really really loved.

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

Have you seen his other work? Perfect Blue was very much a first film, I found, full of flaws his other films didn't have.

[kencf0618.livejournal.com]

Pity. I've enjoyed all of the three films listed.

[aria-moonstar.livejournal.com]

I heard Paprika was absolutely nuts in a good way. That's very sad :(

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

Paprika is stunning.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

And the soundtrack is awesome.

[velveteen.livejournal.com]

Fuck.