Direct quote 2025-11-20
“The book includes a selection from "70% of My Body Is Made of Movies," which was published years ago by Sony Magazines, film critiques I wrote for Bunshun Online after becoming independent, novel afterwords and contributions, a collection of comments from 'Hideo's Mysteries,' travel essays serialized in the Nikkei Sunday edition newspaper, and essays about Kōbō Abe, among others.”
— @HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN
What it documents
On November 20, 2025 Kojima announced that on the 28th Shinchō bunko will release his essay collection The Gifted Gene and My 70% Movie Body, a sequel to the previous book, with a pink cover; he said it includes a selection from 70% of My Body Is Made of Movies (published years ago by Sony Magazines), film critiques he wrote for Bunshun Online after becoming independent, novel afterwords and contributions, a collection of comments from Hideo's Mysteries, travel essays serialized in the Nikkei Sunday edition, and essays about Kōbō Abe, among other things.
Source
X (Twitter), Hideo Kojima's English-language account @HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN, 2025-11-20 (tweet). View source ↗
“On November 28, my essay collection "The Gifted Gene and My 70% Movie Body" will be released by Shinchō bunko. — 5:12 · 20 nov 2025”