Movies
Shazam! Fury of the Gods
The further adventures of crime-fighting superhero Shazam.

Vesper
After the collapse of Earth's ecosystem, Vesper, a 13-year-old girl struggling to survive with her paralyzed Father, meets a mysterious Woman with a secret that forces Vesper to use her wits, strength and bio-hacking abilities to fight for the possibility of a future.

Hideo Kojima
Director, Screenwriter, Designer
I watched the movie VESPER, which I had been curious about from the trailer. The film starts off with a lot of Death Stranding-ish flavor. The world and the look of the film are unique. The story is more like a Lithuanian version of Nausicaa than Death Stranding.

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers undertake an epic heist to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people.

Hideo Kojima
Director, Screenwriter, Designer
I saw "Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves" in IMAX because Sophia Lillis is in it. In fact this one surprised me! So-fxxking-funny! Great movie! I had had enough of the "sword and sorcery" stuff, but the visuals, the gimmicks, the look, it was all new!

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
The third film in the Marvel Studios' Ant-Man trilogy. Plot details are being kept hidden in the Quantum Realm.

The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice
A childless middle-aged couple faces a marital crisis of sorts.

They Call Me Jeeg
After accidentally coming into contact with radioactive waste, small-time crook Enzo Ceccotti gains superpowers. A misanthropic, introverted brute, he uses his new powers for personal gain until he meets Alessia, a mentally challenged girl who believes Enzo’s the hero from her favorite Japanese anime series, Steel Jeeg.

Hideo Kojima
Director, Screenwriter, Designer
Which creators and actors currently have your attention?
There are many actors that I follow. Luca Marinelli recently caught my eye after watching "The Old Guard" and "Martin Eden". He played an impressive villain in "They Call Me Jeeg Robot", but I think that he will break out soon, and his popularity will increase.

Martin Eden
The tale of an individualist proletarian in a time marked by the rise of mass political movements. In early 20th-century Italy, illiterate sailor Martin Eden seeks fame as a writer while torn between the love of a bourgeois girl and allegiance to his social class.

Hideo Kojima
Director, Screenwriter, Designer
Which creators and actors currently have your attention?
There are many actors that I follow. Luca Marinelli recently caught my eye after watching "The Old Guard" and "Martin Eden". He played an impressive villain in "They Call Me Jeeg Robot", but I think that he will break out soon, and his popularity will increase.

The Old Guard
Four undying warriors who've secretly protected humanity for centuries become targeted for their mysterious powers just as they discover a new immortal.

Hideo Kojima
Director, Screenwriter, Designer
Which creators and actors currently have your attention?
There are many actors that I follow. Luca Marinelli recently caught my eye after watching "The Old Guard" and "Martin Eden". He played an impressive villain in "They Call Me Jeeg Robot", but I think that he will break out soon, and his popularity will increase.

Gappa, the Triphibian Monster
An expedition in the South Pacific lands on a tropical island where the natives worship the mysterious deity Gappa. An earthquake opens up an underground cavern and a baby reptile is discovered inside. The natives warn the foreigners to leave the hatching alone, but they don't listen and take it back to a zoo in Japan. Soon after, moma and papa Gappa start smashing Tokyo looking for their kidnapped child.

Snowpiercer
In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.

An Autumn Afternoon
Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that she should not be obliged to look after him for the rest of his life, so he arranges a marriage for her.

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Hideo's Zvyagintsev Movie Marathon - 3 FIlms
Recently, Hideo Kojima has been up on some movies by Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev. His works are known for its stunning visuals, profound meaning and atmosphere that is hard to put into words. We selected 3 movies Hideo recommended diving into.

Hideo Kojima
Director, Screenwriter, Designer
Recently, Hideo Kojima has been up on some movies by Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev. His works are known for its stunning visuals, profound meaning and atmosphere that is hard to put into words. We selected 3 movies Hideo recommended diving into.

Fantastic Voyage
In order to save an assassinated scientist, a submarine and its crew are shrunk to microscopic size and injected into his bloodstream.

Hideo Kojima
Director, Screenwriter, Designer
Both the novels and the music, I tend to find them thru the movie I watch. I met Christie from "Murder on the Orient Express" which was on the movie magazine cover back then. I met Sci-Fi from Asimov's novelized book of "Fantastic Voyage"(I saw the movie first),

Murder on the Orient Express
In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.

Hideo Kojima
Director, Screenwriter, Designer
Both the novels and the music, I tend to find them thru the movie I watch. I met Christie from "Murder on the Orient Express" which was on the movie magazine cover back then. I met Sci-Fi from Asimov's novelized book of "Fantastic Voyage"(I saw the movie first),

The Guns of Navarone
A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.

The Great Escape
The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war. Undaunted, the prisoners plan one of the most ambitious escape attempts of World War II. Based on a true story.

Hideo Kojima
Director, Screenwriter, Designer
I then thought of a new idea of a ‘war game’ that avoids combat. The first thing that came to mind was The Great Escape (1963). This is one of my favourite movies, where the way to fight is escaping. However, in the hero-dominated game market of that time, I thought no one would enjoy playing a game where they have to run away. I understood that much.

The Killing
Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and gets married. But when George tells his restless wife about the scheme to steal millions from the racetrack where he works, she hatches a plot of her own.

Loving Vincent
The film brings the paintings of Vincent van Gogh to life to tell his remarkable story. Every one of the 65,000 frames of the film is an oil-painting hand-painted by 125 professional oil-painters who travelled from all across the world to the Loving Vincent studios in Poland and Greece to be a part of the production. As remarkable as Vincent’s brilliant paintings are his passionate and ill-fated life and mysterious death.

La Strada
When Gelsomina, a naïve young woman, is purchased from her impoverished mother by brutish circus strongman Zampanò to be his wife and partner, she loyally endures her husband's coldness and abuse as they travel the Italian countryside performing together. Soon Zampanò must deal with his jealousy and conflicted feelings about Gelsomina when she finds a kindred spirit in Il Matto, the carefree circus fool, and contemplates leaving Zampanò.

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6 Favorite movies with Mads Mikkelsen
Hideo Kojima named 6 Mads Mikkelsen performances he praises. Check it out!

Hideo Kojima
Director, Screenwriter, Designer
Hideo Kojima named 6 Mads Mikkelsen performances he praises. Check it out!

Roma
In 1970s Mexico City, two domestic workers help a mother of four while her husband is away for an extended period of time.

Hideo Kojima
Director, Screenwriter, Designer
Saw ROMA by Cuarón on Netflix. OMG this is amazing! The flaming structure throughout the movie, the layout, that long one shot from the corner of screen to the other corner, I can't figure out how they shot but was thoroughly designed. This is the real movie for the big screen.

Viy
A young priest is ordered to preside over the wake of a witch in the church of a remote village. This means spending three nights alone with the corpse with only his faith to protect him.

Bao
An aging Chinese mom suffering from empty nest syndrome gets another chance at motherhood when one of her dumplings springs to life as a lively, giggly dumpling boy.

Green Book
Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South in the days when African Americans, forced to find alternate accommodations and services due to segregation laws below the Mason-Dixon Line, relied on a guide called The Negro Motorist Green Book.