When Japanese debutant director Satoshi Kon signed on to adapt a horror novel, expectations were low. The novel, about a pop idol dealing with a bloodthirsty stalker, was not particularly interesting ...

Nearly 30 years ago, celebrated Japanese animation director Satoshi Kon (1963-2010) envisioned a near future where our increasingly digital world could open floodgates of obsession and blur lines of ...

The groundbreaking directorial debut of anime legend Satoshi Kon (Paprika, Tokyo Godfathers) is coming to 4K UHD for the first time this winter, when the three-disc set Perfect Blue (Collector’s ...

Animated films aren’t just for happy childrens fare. Some of the best animation proves just how scary the medium can be. Most people don’t think of animated films as the ones that make you shudder.

While Satoshi Kon may be a famous name now in anime, back when he directed Perfect Blue, he was mostly unknown, but this anime certainly changed all that. This was famously based on a manga of Otomo’s ...

When Nina Sayers (Natalie Portman) breathlessly whispers, “It was perfect,” in the final moments of Black Swan, it feels as much like a comment on her performance in Swan Lake as it does about the ...