Animation Director
11 October 1963 to 23 August 2010
A director who dealt in challenging themes within the animation form, Kon made the cult television mini series Paranoia Agent (2004) as well as the features Perfect Blue (1997), Millennium Actress (2001), Tokyo Godfathers (2003) and Paprika (2006). His final film, which will be released posthumously, is The Dream Machine (2011).
