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Hideo kojima interview part 2

The Guardian — Simon Parkin, "Hideo Kojima: video game drop-out", two-part interview (part 2) 2012-05-24 8 entries

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“When she defeated The End she called me up and said: 'It is finished'.”
“I walked in and the shopkeepers knew about me. I couldn't believe it. It was the most surprising moment in my life.”
“Shinkawa was born to be a video game artist.”
“So, after the second Metal Gear launched, I developed my own scripting engine and decided to work on adventure games so that I could have complete control over when the animation played or when the music triggered.”
“Lost World was the first project I was assigned to and the game was cancelled after six months.”
“Without that encounter I probably wouldn't have pursued a proper sequel, and there might never have been a Metal Gear Solid.”
“Every week they paid for us to visit a forest in the mountains nearby. We would dress up in military uniform and play games there. It was a good time.”
“We had so much more budget so we were able to go to Hollywood and hire a composer.”

Hideo kojima interview part 1

The Guardian — Simon Parkin, "Hideo Kojima: video game drop-out", two-part interview (part 1) 2012-05-23 3 entries

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Collider (picking up an interview from The Hollywood Reporter) 2019-10-30 2 entries

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Hideo kojima the creative gene book quotes

DualShockers, quoting Kojima's book "The Creative Gene" 2022-07-20 2 entries

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Kotaku 2016-12-01 2 entries

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Nippon.com (Japanese edition), "小島秀夫：ゲームの世界を拡張し未踏の地を行く革新者" 2025-10-27 2 entries

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Rolling Stone (joint interview with Nicolas Winding Refn) 2025-08-27 2 entries

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Rolling Stone (picks up the Glixel interview) 2016-12-19 2 entries

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TIME (interview about Death Stranding) 2019 2 entries

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I am not going to pass the baton to anyone i would rather crush the baton says hideo kojima

Time Extension (quoting GQ) 2025-06-11 2 entries

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Hideo kojima explains why he rewrote death stranding 2 from scratch after the pandemic

Videogames Chronicle (remarks at The Game Awards 2022 and an interview with Natalie) 2022-12 2 entries

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Hideo kojima says hes left staff a usb stick of game ideas for after he dies

Videogames Chronicle, on a Kojima interview in Edge 2025-05 2 entries

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anan web — essay written by him, "ヒゲとメガネとHIDEO" (installment 16) 2024-08-07 1 entry

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Kojima wrote that shaving every morning upon waking was a pleasant way to start the day, and that although he now wears a neat three-day stubble he still keeps that morning ritual of tidying it immediately after getting up.

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anan web — essay written by him, installment 21: "変な家" 2024-12-25 1 entry

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Kojima describes the family house in Kawanishi (Hyogo) where he lived from fifth grade: his room and his brother’s were symmetrical, separated by a sliding door, with identical beds facing each other, and when they slept they could hear each other’s breathing and even what they said in their dreams. After dinner, the bath and the living-room TV were finished, the children would shut themselves in their room and turn on the radiocassette; as a result he developed the habit of lying on his bed and listening to the radio.

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anan web — essay written by him, series "小島秀夫のan-an-an、とっても大好き○○○○●" 2023-06-21 1 entry

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Kojima, raised in Kansai, says he loves Osaka's takoyaki and Kobe's akashiyaki; he recounts that there the custom is to make them yourself, with 'takoyaki parties' in which each friend brings ingredients, and that for him they were special precisely because they demand achieving the perfect sphere.

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anan web — essay written by him, series "小島秀夫のan-an-an、とっても大好き○○○○●", installment 32: "監督（ボク）の"匂い"は？" 2025-11-19 1 entry

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Kojima says he has a much more sensitive sense of smell than other people, to the point of sometimes feeling unwell from odors, and that when he rides his company's elevator he can sometimes identify who rode before him from the lingering scent.

Mamoru oshii to feature on hideo kojima podcast

Anime News Network (quoting a Kojima tweet) 2022-08-30 1 entry

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“I have been knowing Mr. Oshii for 26 years now. It’s been a really long time since I’ve seen him, partly because of the pandemic, so I really enjoyed today’s recording. This will be broadcasted on the Spotify program “Hideo Kojima presents Brain Structure”. Please look forward to it. So tonight, I re-watch “PATLABOR THE MOVIE” for the first time in 33 years.”

Death stranding 2 on the beach game wins bafta award

Anime News Network (Death Stranding 2 wins a BAFTA) 2026-04 1 entry

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In 2026, Death Stranding 2: On the Beach won the Artistic Achievement award at the BAFTA Games Awards.

Hideo kojima beyond the strand showcase

CGMagazine and gamepressure (on the Beyond the Strand event, Kojima Productions' 10th anniversary) 2025-09 1 entry

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For the tenth anniversary of Kojima Productions, at the «Beyond the Strand» event in September 2025, Kojima announced, in addition to video games, an augmented reality game with Niantic, an official sake called ZAKU LUDENS, and a branded credit card with the bank Mitsubishi UFJ.

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cinemacafe.net (interview) 2022-06-10 1 entry

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Kojima said he tries to watch one film a day and devotes all his non-working time to that; he gets through meals as quickly as possible and spends the rest of his time on film watching and reading, except on weekends when he plays with his children.

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Console Tribe (reproduces the @HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN tweet) 2020-07-06 1 entry

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“Shocked to know Ennio Morricone has passed away.. RIP. I just bought the OST of "The Legend of 1900". I used his music "Here's To You" sing by Joan Baez for MGS V: Ground Zeroes, the song used in the film "Sacco e Vanzetti".”

Brief history hideo kojima passive aggressive movie reviews

Den of Geek, by Kirsten Howard 2025-12-15 1 entry

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“Saw Captain Marvel.”

Mtvs lifetime achievement game award goes to hideo kojima

Destructoid (Kojima's speech at the 2008 MTV Game Awards) 2008-11 1 entry

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“I will not retire. I will continue to create games as long as I live.”

Filmmaker guillermo del toro and game creator hideo kojima re connect at d i c e summit

Fox News (DICE Summit coverage) 2016-02-20 1 entry

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“I'll do whatever the (expletive) he wants”

Hideo kojima turned down cameos death stranding 2

Game Rant (Kojima turns down cameos in Death Stranding 2) 2025-05 1 entry

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For Death Stranding 2, Kojima had to turn down around half of the cameo requests from famous people: scanning each person in the studio took about fifteen minutes, and the team ran out of space on the project.

Hideo kojima guillermo del toro relationship comments

Game Rant (Kojima on how del Toro "saved" him) 2023 1 entry

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“Hideo, what you're making is already a movie. Keep going as you are.”

Death stranding 2 game awards 2025 list

Game Rant (Death Stranding 2's results at The Game Awards 2025) 2025-12 1 entry

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Death Stranding 2: On the Beach was nominated in seven major categories at The Game Awards 2025, including Game of the Year, but did not win any awards; the main prize went to Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.

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Game Rant (on the OD reveal at The Game Awards 2023) 2023-12 1 entry

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“a new form of media”

Hideo kojima response prophet coronavirus prediction death stranding

Game Rant, by Jonathan Ammerman 2020-07-13 1 entry

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“I'd like to say that am not a prophet, because if I was I probably would have created a game that would sell more.”

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GameRant (quoting a Geoff Keighley interview in Glixel) 2016-12-02 1 entry

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“couldn't even talk to them – he had to talk through someone else. That's how that game was finished.”

Hideo kojima icon of the industry

Games Storytellers (blog), quoting a 2004 interview; other secondary sources attribute it to EDGE 2004 1 entry

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“[whenever] I travel and stay at a hotel I put the TV on as soon as I enter the room, just to deal with the feeling of loneliness”

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GamesRadar+ (read via the Yahoo mirror), by Jordan Gerblick; origin: Kojima's own post on X/Twitter 2024-06-26 1 entry

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“When I had just started my own studio and had nothing, I pitched the DS project to Norman at a sushi restaurant and asked him if he would like to do it with me. He instantly said yes even though I didn't even have a script.”

Death stranding hideo kojima clarifies what he means when he calls social strand system a new genre

GamingBolt — Kojima's remarks on Death Stranding's genre 2019-09 1 entry

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“I allowed myself to create this temporary genre by the name 'social strand', because it's more fair to the game”

Death stranding 2 elle fanning talks motion capture and acting crying on demand

GamingBolt (on a Josh Horowitz interview) 2023-05-16 1 entry

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“Okay, now you cry [...] I have to get in the mood but in the whole suit.”

Hideo kojima interview beyond code

hube magazine 2025 1 entry

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“I create films and art within the medium of games. This is not a conscious choice, it is simply an inevitable result.”

Hideo kojima has seen return to silent hill and his 8 word review says it all

inkl (syndicating Total Film / GamesRadar+, by Emily Garbutt) 2026 1 entry

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“Watched 'Return to Silent Hill' on Amazon Prime”

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Kojima Productions (official website, English version) 2025-03 1 entry

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“Music accounts for 80% of what moves people emotionally. I hope that the songs, whether they are songs that play in moments of solitude or ones that evoke cinematic spectacle, I hope that they will touch your hearts.”

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Kotaku 2026-07-05 1 entry

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“Currently, I've been buying up a lot of Blu-rays, such as various movies, and CDs too. [...] So, what is happening to video games in 2028, might also happen to movies.”

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Kotaku — on Kojima's withdrawal from GDC 2026 2026 1 entry

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In 2026 Kojima was scheduled to give a talk at the Game Developers Conference about his fateful decision a decade ago to go independent after a messy breakup with Konami, but he withdrew without offering an explanation; Kojima Productions announced he would not attend and said that some members of the studio would still present at the event.

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Kotaku (quoting The Washington Post) 2026-06 1 entry

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“But in 50 years, 100 years, I don't know. Maybe AI could create art, but while I live, I don't think I'll see it. I'm not interested in it.”

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Kotaku (picking up a Famitsu interview) 2019-10-09 1 entry

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“Even when I went to the bank, I couldn't borrow money. They said, 'We know you're renowned, but you don't have any actual results.'”

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Kotaku (compilation of @HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN tweets), by Stephen Totilo 2013-07-05 1 entry

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“Pacific Rim is the ultimate otaku film that all of us had always been waiting for. Who are you, if you are Japanese and won't watch this?”

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Man of Many 2025-09-15 1 entry

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“It's almost like a disease. I'm imagining things all the time. Even when I'm talking to my family, in my head I'm in a totally different world.”

Kojima talks about his gaming influences movies vr and more in sky news interview

Metal Gear Informer, transcribing a Sky News interview 2016-07-23 1 entry

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“If I'm going through a difficult patch, and I watch a great movie, it reminds me that there are so many creative people out there all over the world pushing hard to accomplish great things. That really motivates me to keep going. So I guess these are the two reasons why I make sure I watch movies every day.”

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Movieplayer.it, by Elisa Erriu 2025-11 1 entry

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At Lucca Comics & Games 2025, Kojima updated his old line about being made of film: he said that of the 70% of films he carries inside, 35% is made up of Italian cinema.

Norman reedus talks death stranding 2 hideo kojima yelling at him

Nerd Reactor 2024-04-29 1 entry

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“Every time I say something about that game [Death Stranding] on the internet or a talk show or whatever and Hideo hasn't said it first, he calls and he yells at me. So I'm not saying anything. He's yelled at me several times.”

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NME (Kojima on Elle Fanning's role in Death Stranding 2) 2023-02 1 entry

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“I think I'm gonna re-write the script now, I have new ideas after meeting you.”

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NME, on a Kojima interview with Le Film Français 2025-05 1 entry

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“I'm getting older, and I'd prefer to do it while I'm still young!”

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Noisy Pixel 2025-12-31 1 entry

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“Unlike last year, like I was traveling all over the world, this year will be about staying grounded and laying solid foundations. [...] This year also marks my 40th anniversary in the game industry from 1986 and began my journey in game creation.”

Hideo kojima says death strandings now had over 20 million players and the fact folk are still playing makes me the happiest

PC Gamer (Kojima's remarks on the 20 million players) 2025-03 1 entry

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Around March 2025, around his appearance at SXSW, Kojima announced that Death Stranding had surpassed 20 million players across all platforms; he said that people still playing it makes him the happiest.

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PCGamesN 2016-12-06 1 entry

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“It's very intricate. I mean, you know (Kojima). He's a very brilliant man. I mean… the stuff he told me? I only understood some of it.”

I flew 2400 kms to not talk to hideo

Pixel Fix (Substack), account of one of his appearances 2025-07 1 entry

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“When I see movies and get ideas, usually just talking to people, eating or walking, or maybe I'm in a bath, I come up with these ideas. So it's almost like a disease, I call it. Even when I'm talking with my family, in my head, I'm in a totally different world.”

Hideo kojima makes conan death stranding cameo happen

PlayStation LifeStyle 2019-10-24 1 entry

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“So Conan, do you want to be in the game? [...] We have a 3D scanner right there.”

They said im crazy kojimas new single player horror like nothing seen before

Push Square (picking up an Entertainment Weekly interview) 2026-06-22 1 entry

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“I pitched to many people, to the big companies, and also to the up-and-coming companies. All of them said the same thing... They said that I'm crazy, and that they really don't understand the concept — that they will not be able to do it.”

Kojima productions studio tour reveals swankiest offices youve ever seen

Push Square (tour of the Kojima Productions studio) 2022-12 1 entry

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Kojima Productions’ Tokyo headquarters has a pure white lobby where a life‑size statue of Ludens, the studio’s mascot, greets visitors; inside the studio there is a movie theatre and a gallery space where Kojima’s body of work is presented like a museum exhibit.

Hideo kojima wants his studio to make movies in the future

Push Square, by Stephen Tailby; origin: BBC Newsbeat documentary 2019-11-04 1 entry

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“In the future, Kojima Productions will start making films. If you can do one thing well, then you can do everything well.”

Hideo kojima made the death stranding team watch twin peaks

Rely on Horror (picks up Kojima's tweet of 6-08-2018) 2018-08 1 entry

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“It is not directly related to DEATH STRANDING but I wanted to let them know the direction and the world of Lynch.”

Kojima game concept forgetful protagonist

Screen Rant (on ideas Kojima shared on his KOJI10 podcast) 2025-05 1 entry

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On his radio show KOJI10, Kojima described two game ideas he would probably never make: a "forgetting" game in which, if you stop playing for a while, the protagonist gradually forgets information and mechanics — even how to move — to the point that you’d almost have to take a week off to play it; and a life simulator in which the character ages from baby to elderly, with mobility and vision deteriorating, which Kojima joked no one would buy.

Hideo kojima martin scorsese second god george miller

ScreenRant, quoting a GQ interview 2025-06-10 1 entry

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“If Scorsese's doing it, I can't criticize Scorsese. He's the second god. The first is George Miller.”

Hideo kojima gets a cameo in zootopia 2 japanese dub

Siliconera (Kojima's cameo in the Japanese dub of Zootopia 2) 2025-12 1 entry

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Kojima's debut as a voice actor — his first time voicing a character in an animated film — was in the Japanese dub of Zootopia 2 (Zootrópolis 2), in which he voices Paul Molebrandt, nicknamed the Mole, a minor IT department employee at the Zootopia Police Department; the Japanese release was 5 December 2025. Recalling his participation in Zootopia 2 on KOJI10, Kojima said he was not told which character he would voice until he arrived for the recording.

Hideo kojima awarded guinness world records for his record numbers of followers on social media

Siliconera (on Kojima's Guinness records) 2019-11 1 entry

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In November 2019, during the promotion of Death Stranding, Kojima received two Guinness World Records for being the game director with the most followers on both Twitter and Instagram.

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SlashFilm, on the four favourites Kojima gave GQ 2025-06 1 entry

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Asked by GQ, Kojima named as his four favorite films 2001: A Space Odyssey, Taxi Driver, Mad Max 2 and High and Low, although he clarified that his top four changes all the time.

Legendary game creator hideo kojima explains how fans inspired his new podcast brain structure

Spotify Newsroom 2022-09-08 1 entry

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“Way back in 2005, I did my own podcast, Hidechan! Radio, for a long time. I grew up in the generation of radio and after I became a creator, I wanted to give something back to the medium that was there for me when I was a lonely kid.”

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SVG (reproduces a @HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN tweet) 2019-12-24 1 entry

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“Me as an old man going to the theater by myself on this day? I changed my plan to stay in my office working on my next concept.”

Woodkid on the death stranding 2 soundtrack and why games could be the new music videos

The A.V. Club (Toussaint Egan interview with Woodkid) 2025-07-07 1 entry

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“Hideo kept pushing me to make something even more deconstructed and crazy and industrial and radical and I went way further than I thought I would be able to do in my music and still recognize my music.”

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The Japan Times — «Kojima's terrifying world of the unknown» 2014-09-26 1 entry

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“Human fear ultimately stems from the unknown. P.T. was an experiment in producing an effect in response to that nature.”

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TheGamer (quoting Edge Magazine) 2025-05-15 1 entry

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“I gave a USB stick with all my ideas on it to my personal assistant, kind of like a will. [...] Perhaps I have ten years?”

Death stranding low roar band leader ryan karazija passes away

TheGamer (picks up Kojima's message on Twitter/X) 2022-10-29 1 entry

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“Without Ryan, without you and your music, Death Stranding would not have been born. Your music will live forever in this world and in me.”

Caroline polachek shares new song on the beach for a hideo kojima game soun

Under the Radar (reproduces a Videogames Chronicle interview) 2025-06-23 1 entry

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“I was listening to Caroline Polachek last year and became a big fan of hers. After I put that on my Instagram, she contacted me, and then she DM'ed. We kept in touch and then eventually met up in Paris, and that's when she told me she wanted to write a new song for Death Stranding 2.”

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Vandal (El Español), on the Il Cinema in Piazza festival (Rome); quote attributed to GamesRadar 2026-07-21 1 entry

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At the Il Cinema in Piazza festival in Rome, Kojima said he has always thought he wants to die in a movie theater, specifically at the moment just before the film begins, after the trailers and commercials have played.

Hideo kojima scrapped death stranding 2 feature because players would create emo norman reedus

Vice, on Kojima's remarks (translation by Genki) 2025-05 1 entry

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For Death Stranding 2, Kojima wanted Sam (played by Norman Reedus) to have his hair and beard grow in real time, with the player shaving or cutting them at a mirror; he discarded the idea, among other reasons, because he did not want to harm a superstar like Reedus.

Hideo kojima has an encyclopedic knowledge of death strandings review scores

Video Games Chronicle (picking up a New York Times profile) 2020-03-05 1 entry

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“It's OK; everyone can evaluate what they want. In three to five years, we will see what people will say.”

Hideo kojima says he personally inserted all his cameos in death stranding 2

Video Games Chronicle (translating a GameSpark interview) 2025-06-30 1 entry

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“I put all of these things in. Even if I said to the staff, 'Please put them in!', they would just say, 'Huh?' and pretend not to know (laughs).”

Composer says kojima changed death stranding 2 because it wasnt polarizing enough

Video Games Chronicle (VGC), by Jordan Middler; original Rolling Stone interview with Woodkid 2025-06-16 1 entry

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“If everyone likes it, it means it's mainstream. It means it's conventional. It means it's already pre-digested for people to like it.”

Hideo kojima wants to develop a game in space and risk his life like tom cruise

Videogames Chronicle, on remarks to The Guardian at the Sydney Film Festival 2025-06 1 entry

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“I could probably make games in space. I want to be the first.”

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Yahoo Entertainment (GameSpot article, by Eddie Makuch) 2026-07-21 1 entry

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At the Il Cinema in Piazza festival in Rome, Kojima said he has always thought he wants to die in a movie theater, specifically at the moment just before the film begins, after the trailers and commercials have played.

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Yahoo Entertainment (picks up Kojima's 2018 tweet about David Lynch) 2018 1 entry

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“Thank you, Lynch-sensei. You gave me courage.”

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Yahoo Entertainment / PC Gamer (Kojima's reaction to Furiosa) 2024 1 entry

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“He is my God, and the SAGA that he tells is my Bible”

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シネマトゥデイ (Cinema Today) 2015-06-26 1 entry

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While meeting George Miller in Japan during the promotion of Mad Max: Fury Road, Kojima told him that his games are made inheriting various genes from the director, and that if he exists it is because Miller existed.

Books and texts by Kojima 3 sources · 179 entries

Documentary and video 3 sources · 91 entries

Podcast and radio 25 sources · 279 entries

Interviews 29 sources · 194 entries

Features and profiles 6 sources · 28 entries

Official sites and accounts 11 sources · 47 entries

Reference works 3 sources · 10 entries

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