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The 4 favorite films by Hideo Kojima are all Bangers





Anyone who has played a game from the famous Japanese video game designer Hideo Kojima can say that he is a big fan of films. His games, like the series “Metal Gear” and “Death Stranding”, are well known to be deeply cinematographic with very complex intrigues, and he obtained quite famous filmmakers to assume roles. In fact, “Death Stranding” presents not only the actors Norman Reedus, Mads Mikkelsen, Margaret Qualley and Léa Seydoux, but he also includes performance of vocal capture and movement by directors Nicolas Winding Refn and Guillermo del Toro. Now, with Kojima and A24 now transforming “Death Stranding” into a real film, it seems prudent to look at the favorite films of the impressive creative.

Recently, Kojima both visited the Criterion closet to discuss some of his favorite films and was asked about his four favorite films by GQ, and although there is a very small overlap, his four best for GQ are all absolute bangers. (The choices of criteria are also quite large, because it essentially transforms it into a lesson in Japanese cinema of the 1950s and 1960s!) It is logical that Kojima has a great taste in the films based on the cinematographic influences of his games and his killer taste in the actors, but it is always good to learn exactly the films that count them most.

Kojima’s four favorite films all come from the realization of the titans

When he was asked by GQ to appoint his four best letters of letters, Kojima revealed that he had no letters of letters yet but was now interested, especially when he learned the realization of the legend Martin Scorsese has an account. “If Scorsese is the fact, I cannot criticize Scorsese. He is the second God. The first is George Miller,” noted Kojima. He continued by explaining that he in fact retains a film follow-up list on his phone similar to what Letterboxd does, with different emojis for the films he watched with his sons or his infamous “without comment” of the negative non-evaluations for which fans are unleashed on social networks.

Although he admitted that his best changes “all the time”, which is extremely relatable, he told GQ that at the time of the interview, they were “2001: A Space Odyssey” by Stanley Kubrick, “Miller” Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior “and the” Taxi Driver “of Miller”. You can really see the influence of “2001” on the visuals of Kojima, in particular in “Death Stranding”, and there are certainly elements of “Mad Max” in this post-apocalyptic tale. Each of the films is among the best known for their directors, with the exception of “High and Low”, which is often ignored in favor of Kurosawa’s opera samurai films like “Yojimbo”, “Seven Samurai” and “Ran”. (It made our list of the 11 best Kurosawa films, however!)

High and Low from Kurosawa had a great influence on Kojima

“High and Low” is a little different from Kurosawa samurai films, because it is a complicated criminal film on an abduction of evil. He features the frequent collaborator of Kurosawa Toshirô Mifune as a rich business man who believes that his son was kidnapped for a ransom, only to discover that the son of his driver was kidnapped instead. The kidnapper always intends to kill the child if the businessman does not pay, leading to a complex moral dilemma. “High and Low” is a police procedure tense with characters who are neither purely good nor bad, rather representing them in shades of gray, they tend to be closer to reality. The literal shades of gray in the film are broken by a blow which includes pink smoke, which was a fairly majestic feat in 1963. Indeed, “High and Low” presents a really spectacular cinematography in general.

In the Criterion closet, Kojima was delighted to see that “High and Low” is in the collection, and it was even more excited to be able to bring a copy home, by referring it as his favorite Kurosawa film. You can see part of the influence of “High and Low” in Kojima’s work, both in terms of composition and writing writing, because the characters of Kojima are generally all kinds of morally compromised. So, while his favorite films could change all the time, these four are serious bangers.



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