He died at 46 years Satoshi Kon, Japanese anime director more dreamlike.
The Japanese anime director Satoshi Kon, the creator of classic dream of the animation as Perfect Blue, Tokyo Godfathers and Paprika, died Tuesday at age 46 because of a pancreatic cancer, said his company Madhouse. The company delayed the announcement out of respect for his family, while the death of a popular entertainer had been ahead of last night on Twitter and some anime portals.
Kon, awarded in, ffxiv gil, 2001 in the Fantastic Film Festival of Sitges (Spain) for his film Millennium Actress, had acquired a great popularity for its ability to create fantastic dream world that is mixed with urban life of modern Japan. One of his last productions, Paprika (2006), inspired Christopher Nolan for his successful feature Origin, in which Leonardo DiCaprio stars as a thief of dreams, fallen earth chips, dedicated to industrial espionage. Satoshi Kon had a close relationship with Katsuhiro Otomo, creator of the cult anime Akira, and together he was considered one of the leading exponents of futuristic anime and psychological. Kon, who began his career as a manga artist, won worldwide recognition in 1998 with his role in the direction of Perfect Blue anime, although the early work with his friend, tera gold, 90 Otomo in Rojin Z. Anime fan groups have sent their condolences via the Internet by the loss of Kon, who was working on a new feature called Yume-Miru Kikai (Machine dreamy).