Satoshi Kon, Anime Filmmaker, Dies at 46 (Published 2010)A scene from Satoshi Kon’s 2006 movie “Paprika,” his last feature.Credit...Sony Pictures Classics Satoshi Kon, a Japanese filmmaker and comic-book artist whose dazzling visual compositions and humane, emotionally resonant stories won him a devoted following in animation circles and beyond, died in Tokyo on Tuesday. He was 46. The cause was pancreatic cancer, according to the Tokyo Shimbun news ser
