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Satoshi Kon

Japanese anime director and manga artist (1963–2010)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 7, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Satoshi Kon was a Japanese film director, animator, screenwriter and manga artist from Sapporo, Hokkaido, and a member of the Japanese Animation Creators Association (JAniCA). He was a graduate of the Graphic Design department of the Musashino Art University. He is best known for his acclaimed anime films Perfect Blue (1997), Millennium Actress (2001), Tokyo Godfathers (2003), and Paprika (2006), and the TV series Paranoia Agent (2004).

In 2010, Kon died of pancreatic cancer at age 46.

Editorial summary

“Satoshi Kon” enters the record as japanese anime director and manga artist (1963–2010). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Satoshi, Japanese and anime can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1997, 2001, 2003, 2006—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Satoshi, Japanese and anime.
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Why this record matters

“Satoshi Kon” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Satoshi, Japanese and anime provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 7, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1997, 2001, 2003 and 2006.

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This entry incorporates text from “Satoshi Kon” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.