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Interview: Satoshi Kon

He seems like a very pleasant and well mannered man.

I loved Paprika and Magnetic Rose, but unfortunately haven't seen any of his other work.

I was also doing editing for the magazine, so I helped him with some of his work as well.

There's some rumors that the Go Fish division of Dreamworks, which doesn't exist anymore, wanted to recut it for American audiences so the story would be in chronological order.

Still, I didn't know anything about what the release [in the US] would look like. I knew that Dreamworks would be releasing it here, but after that, I was never told how they would release it and promote it.

The DVD jacket illustration was changed by the Dreamworks management, and honestly, I think that it doesn't really match the story of the film. It sabotages the culture of the film, I think. To put it bluntly... "what the hell?"

So you've gone against the types of women that have been very popular in anime recently - "moe" type of girls.

There will be no human characters in the film; only robots. It'll be like a "road movie" for robots. Unfortunately, we ran out of time at this point;

The image of women that appears in Japanese animation, on the whole, is something that should be approached as a pre-existing stereotype. Women like the ones in anime don't really exist in reality. I don't appeal to realism as if my life depended on it, but with visuals, characters and the story, there's a reality amongst all that.

and I have to admit that as I watched it, I noticed many things here and there that weren't done quite right - I felt a little embarrassed actually. Still, although Perfect Blue was my first film and many things didn't look right, there are many elements from the film that connect to my later works.

I think I'm going to pick up Paprika on Blu-ray sooner or later... I'm finding myself to be more and more a fan of his works.

I don't appeal to realism as if my life depended on it, but with visuals, characters and the story, there's a reality amongst all that. The characters that appear in that reality - anime fans, stories, male characters - it's not like I present those in a purely realistic way either.

and a little too many lucky encounters in the megacity of Tokyo (Hey! You’re here too? What a coincidence!) and you got a movie that I was really struggling to like….