One of the greatest giants of Japanese animation, Satoshi Kon died today at the age of 46 only. He was the director of the movie Paprika and is considered to be the creator of Paranoia agent. His death news was tweeted a few hours age by a Gainax employee and the news was confirmed by Madhouse’s Masao Maruyama through the Otakon committee.

Satoshi Kon was suffering from pancreatic cancer and died yesterday after losing a long battle. His noted works are Perfect Blue, Millennium Actress and Paprika.
Many USA directors have been influenced by the work of this great animator. In fact, Paprika was Kon’s experiment with dreams and from there only Christopher Nolan got the idea of his latest blockbuster Inception.

Darren Aronofsky bought the remake rights of Perfect Blue and also that of Requiem for a Dream just to copy the bathtub sequence of the film. Satoshi Kon first drew international attention for his outstanding work in the film Perfect Blue in the year 1997. The entertainment world will truly miss this genius.

At the time of his death, this great animator was working on his next movie named Yume Miru Kikai, which will be known in English as The Dream Machine. The movie was targeted to be a fantasy adventure one and was mainly to be meant for the young audiences. The film will have no human characters, but every action will be conducted by robots only.

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