Hideo Kojima
Hideo Kojima
Hideo Kojimais a Japanese video game designer, screenwriter, director, and producer. He is the director of Kojima Productions, which he originally founded in 2005, and a former vice president of Konami Digital Entertainment. He is often regarded as an "auteur" video game director...
NationalityJapanese
ProfessionEngineer
Date of Birth24 August 1963
CityTokyo, Japan
CountryJapan
nice world body
It's nice to wear a suit once in a while. It can restrict some body movement, but it makes me feel as though I'm part of society. I feel a sense of security because I've conformed to the standards of the rest of the world.
play want able
Gamers should be able to take the experience with them in their living rooms, on the go, when they travel -- wherever they are and whenever they want to play. It should be the same software and the same experience,
nice people long
People are satisfied with making minor upgrades and tweaking things here and there - as long as that's the landscape, it will keep on happening. I don't see a problem necessarily, but at the same time it is nice to see new things come.
book reading japan
I was born in Japan and raised in Japan, but those are the only things that make me Japanese, I've grown up reading books from all over.
careful continuation sequels
You have to be very careful when you're working on a sequel, because it has to be a continuation of what you did before.
europe games roles
Japanese gamers aren't really into action games right now. They're into role-playing or strategy games with a lot of stats, but action titles are still really popular across the US and Europe.
book books-and-movies
There are so many books and movies I like I never mention specific ones.
two clothes office
I usually wear casual clothes to the office. I wear a suit maybe two or three times a month, and usually only when I need to meet with the head office.
caves cameras lost
What's troubling is that because the camera is 3D, the northern part of the screen isn't necessarily north anymore. So the jungle transforms into the true meaning of a jungle. For someone with no sense of direction like myself, I get lost in the caves every time.
bathroom disneyland
At Disneyland, you never go backstage - even when youre in the bathroom.
war fighting battle
War buddies don't exist in the meeting room. It's a battle between a lot of different officers. Some continue fighting when they don't realize that they have been shot.
today digital entertainment
Super Mario Bros. is equivalent to the Big Bang of our gaming universe. If it were not for this blindingly spectacular creation, digital entertainment as we know it today would not exist.
showing
The painter has total control over what they're showing to the viewer.
art artistic aspects dedicated games museums music perceived sort synthesis technology various
There are many museums dedicated to technology, artistic endeavors, music, and that sort of thing. From that perspective, I think games really do have a place as a kind of collaborative art or a synthesis of all these various aspects into a whole, and that, in itself, can be perceived as art.