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
brought concept prisoner simply war
My first concept was for a game in which you were a prisoner of war and simply had to escape. If you were caught, you'd be brought back to the prison. The idea was for a non-combat game.
cold nowadays people rivalry war
People nowadays don't know about the Cold War and the U.S.'s old rivalry with the U.S.S.R.
games senseless war
I won't make games with senseless violence. There has to be a reason for it, such as war.
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.
worlds
When I was small, I was always thinking about different worlds in my head.
films
To be honest, my friends weren't really as into making films as I was. But I convinced them all to make some zombie films with me.
final fourth
This fourth is going to be the final one for me and Shinkawa. There are other things that we want to create.
people
Normally, when people compose for film, you give them the film, and they look at it, and they compose it.
dreams
One of my first dreams when I was a child was becoming a painter.
believe cooperation entertainment form match mobile share users vast
I believe that this cooperation between Nokia and Konami will form the perfect match to share the vast potential of mobile entertainment content with users all around the world.
people
Many people are taking 2D games and making them into 3D games by recreating the characters in polygons. But the gameplay's still the same, and that's not what they should be doing.
daily opportunity start
Should I use this opportunity to start doing daily headstands?
human
I have always had a fascination about what's inside a human being.
created horror maybe next release
If 'Castlevania' wasn't created next to me, and Capcom didn't release 'Ghouls n' Goblins,' then maybe there wouldn't be any 'Metal Gear,' and I would have created a horror action game, because I really like that genre.