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Hideo Kojima
Hideo Kojima is a Japanese video game designer, writer, director, and producer. He is best known for the Metal Gear franchise, which remains his most famous and acclaimed work, as well as Death Stranding and its sequel. His games are noted for being highly cinematic, the result of a passion for film and literature which began during his childhood, and he is regarded as a pioneering auteur of vide…
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Born 24 August 1963 · Q315577
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2026· 26 entries
“but I can’t really rely on anyone, actually. That’s why I’m creating things, because I can’t rely on people, in a way.”
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“Of course it’s fun, but we’re animals and can’t live alone. I want people to experience the meaning of connection through Death Stranding’s world and its systems.”
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“I would visit his apartment every day to check that he was OK. The first time I went there the floor was covered in plastic parts.”
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“and then approached one of the higher-ups in the company who must have seen something in me as he invited me to pitch my ideas for Metal Gear in front of everyone. Everyone in the team saw that it was a revolutionary idea, I think, and from then on, I had their support.”
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IGN Southeast Asia: Metal Gear Solid 4: The Flawed Masterpiece Kojima Didn't Want to Make
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玩具人 TOY PEOPLE: Fans Demand It! Prime 1 Studio Teases Hideo Kojima Cutie1 Plush-Style Figure
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玩具人 TOY PEOPLE: Hideo Kojima's Four-Year-Old Digital Media Warning Resurfaces Amid PlayStation's Disc-Less Future, Fans Crown Him a 'Time Traveler'
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VidaExtra: Jugar Metal Gear Solid 4 en pleno 2026 es enfrentarse al Kojima que cocinó 600 huevos para una escena
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happygamer.com: Kojima and Caroline Polachek Spark Wild New Game Speculation
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subjetiva.com.ar: Hideo Kojima recuerda el nuevo thriller fantástico científico de Netflix que ha dividido la crítica
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Mshale: Hideo Kojima And Lindsay Wagner Join Geoff Keighley To Talk Death Stranding Municipal - Mixco (X9Deyr4VFD)
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Netflix Junkie: “80s-Flavored Entertainment Film”- Hideo Kojima Shares His Take on ‘The End of Oak Street’ After IMAX Viewing
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Hobby Consolas: Hideo Kojima sale en defensa de una denostada película de terror y supervivencia de Netflix y la compara con Death Stranding
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YouTube: The Kojima Game That Lets You Touch T!ts
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ixbt.games: Hideo Kojima comparó el éxito de Netflix, destrozado por la crítica, con Death Stranding
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パ・リーグ.com: [Seibu Lions] Kojima, who hit the game-winning home run the previous night, will start on the bench. Will 25th-year pro Takeya Nakamura starting line-up for the sixth consecutive game, achieving a three-game sweep against the same opponent for the first tim
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ixbt.games: Hideo Kojima Compares Critically Panned Netflix Hit to Death Stranding
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パ・リーグ.com: [Seibu Lions] Draft pick #1 Taiga Kojima, who hit the game-winning home run the previous night, starts on the bench. What's the reason...?
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Yahoo: The Last House: Hideo Kojima Finds Death Stranding Parallels With Netflix’s Panned Horror Hit
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JustWatch: Hideo Kojima's Favourite Films
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パ・リーグ.com: Saitama Taiga Kojima mount a late-game comeback with a five-run rally, with Seibu Lions hitting a go-ahead three-run homer, his sixth of the season
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Yahoo: Our favorite film critic Hideo Kojima compares Netflix's new low-rated horror movie to Death Stranding
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Yahoo Tech: Hunter Schafer Calls Hideo Kojima a "Genius" While Working on New Game OD
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Vandal: Hideo Kojima sobre 'La Odisea' de Nolan: 'Fue como si estuviera allí mismo en todo momento. Más que verla, me sentí testigo'
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Hobby Consolas: La Odisea de Christopher Nolan recibe grandes halagos de Hideo Kojima: "Sentí como si estuviera allí mismo en todo momento"
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2025· 4 entries
During the Kojima Productions' tenth anniversary event, a new promotional poster featuring the game's obscured protagonist was revealed, as well as the castings of actors Charlee Fraser, Ma Dong-seok, and Minami Hamabe f
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The castings of Luca Marinelli, Alissa Jung, Alastair Duncan, and Debra Wilson for the game were announced, as well as special appearances from film directors Fatih Akin and George Miller
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“In the past, I said that 70% of my body is made of films; of that, 35% is made up of Italian cinema,”
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In conjunction with the promotion of the title, Hideo Kojima embarked on an international tour called the World Strand Tour 2025
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2024· 1 entry
During the PlayStation State of Play event, Kojima announced that he is planning to return to the action-espionage genre after the release of Death Stranding 2 and OD
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2023· 2 entries
Kojima and film studio A24 announced that a live-action feature film adaptation of Death Stranding had started production
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Released album “DEATH STRANDING 2 OFFICIAL OST”.
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2022· 4 entries
Kojima announced on Twitter that he had received the 72nd Minister of Education Award for Fine Arts from the Japanese Agency of Cultural Affairs
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Kojima received an Industry Legend Award from the Arab Game Awards
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Kojima cryptically teased the casting of an upcoming title being developed by Kojima Productions, with Elle Fanning and Shioli Kutsuna confirmed to star
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Kojima began a podcast for Spotify called Hideo Kojima presents Brain Structure
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2020· 3 entries
Awarded BAFTA Fellowship (2020).
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Published “Asian Working Group for Sarcopenia: 2019 Consensus Update on Sarcopenia Diagnosis and Treatment” in Journal of the American Medical Directors Association — cited 6,334 times.
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Kojima was a member of the international Jury of the 77th Venice International Film Festival, Virtual Reality section
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2019· 4 entries
Presents a post-apocalyptic setting in which people live isolated in cities and prepper shelters, unable to go outside because of the hazardous conditions brought on by an event named the "Death Stranding"
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“In the future Kojima Productions will start making films. If you can do one thing well, then you can do everything well”
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Polygon's Julia Lee wrote that for "a game made over 30 years ago, Penguin Adventure had some in-depth features"
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Kojima published a collection of essays in Japan discussing the influence of pop culture on his work under the title The Gifted Gene and My Lovable Memes
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2017· 2 entries
Received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Brasil Game Show
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Kojima became a regular contributor to Rolling Stone, often discussing recent film releases, and occasionally drawing comparisons to his own works
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2016· 4 entries
Awarded The Game Awards – Industry Icon (2016).
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Metal Gear Solid V won the award for Adventure Game of the Year at the 19th Annual D
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“s title as Death Stranding in a trailer. The trailer featured Norman Reedus, who was set to play the protagonist in Kojima”
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Where he and film critic Kenji Yano discuss their favorite films and matters pertaining to Kojima's studio
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2015· 5 entries
Kojima announced that Kojima Productions would be re-established as an independent studio, partnered with Sony Computer Entertainment, and that his first game would be exclusive to PlayStation 4
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The Wolbachia bacteria is used to halt the reproduction of the fictional "vocal cord parasites"
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Kojima's collaborative voice actor Akio Ōtsuka revealed that Konami had closed Kojima Productions; despite reports that Kojima left the company in October 2015, a spokesman for Konami stated that he was "taking a long ti
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Published “Repbase Update, a database of repetitive elements in eukaryotic genomes” in Mobile DNA — cited 2,817 times.
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Shortly before Kojima's departure from the company
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2014· 3 entries
And serving as a prologue to The Phantom Pain
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Kojima was revealed as the director for Silent Hills, the next installment in the Silent Hill franchise, via the playable teaser P
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UNESCO's Bradford City of Film gave Kojima the inaugural award for Cinematography in Videogames, "for his astounding directing, storytelling, and cinematography" in video games
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2012· 1 entry
“A Mind Forever Voyaging: A History of Storytelling in Video Games (2012)”
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2011· 3 entries
Kojima announced that Project S was a radio-show sequel to Snatcher, titled Sdatcher as a reference to the show's producer Suda
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Konami promoted Kojima to Executive Vice President and Corporate Officer
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“s producer Suda. The show would air on Fridays on Kojima”
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2009· 4 entries
Awarded Game Developers Choice Award - Lifetime Achievement (2009).
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“there was a lot of confusion within the team and it didn”
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IGN placed him sixth in their list of top game creators of all time
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Published “Organometal Halide Perovskites as Visible-Light Sensitizers for Photovoltaic Cells” in Journal of the American Chemical Society — cited 22,253 times.
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2008· 1 entry
Next-Gen placed him seventh in their list of "Hot 100 Developers 2008"
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2005· 3 entries
And in 2011 he was appointed vice president of Konami Digital Entertainment
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Published “The Transcriptional Landscape of the Mammalian Genome” in Science — cited 2,961 times.
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“It took her an entire year to complete Metal Gear Solid 3. She would get her friends to help her. When she defeated The End, [a character the player faces off during the game] she called me up and said:”
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2004· 1 entry
With the Japanese counterpart following on December 16
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2003· 4 entries
Produced Boktai: The Sun Is in Your Hand for the Game Boy Advance, in which players take the role of a young vampire hunter who uses a solar weapon charged by a photometric sensor on the game cartridge, forcing them t
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“I have to say, even though I received this award, let me state that I will not retire. I will continue to create games as long as I live.”
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“If the player isn't tricked into believing that the world is real, then there's no point in making the game.”
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Published “The BDNF val66met Polymorphism Affects Activity-Dependent Secretion of BDNF and Human Memory and Hippocampal Function” in Cell — cited 3,243 times.
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1999· 1 entry
Published “Ghrelin is a growth-hormone-releasing acylated peptide from stomach” in Nature — cited 6,659 times.
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1997· 1 entry
Published “Light-induced amphiphilic surfaces” in Nature — cited 3,170 times.
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1994· 1 entry
Kojima began to plan a 3D sequel to Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake, titled Metal Gear Solid and originally planned for release on the 3DO Interactive Multiplayer
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1990· 1 entry
Kojima wrote a remake of Snatcher, SD Snatcher, a role-playing video game which adapted the storyline of the original Snatcher but significantly changed the environments, details of the plot, and core gameplay mechanics
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1987· 2 entries
For the MSX2 home computer in Japan, and in September that year for Europe
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With altered graphics, difficulty, and an abridged ending without the titular weapon
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1986· 1 entry
Kojima directed, designed, and wrote Metal Gear (1987) for the MSX2
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1964· 1 entry
And features wilderness survival, camouflage, and James Bond styled espionage
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1963· 1 entry
Born 1963-08-24.
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