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Hideo Kojima (August 24, 1963), is best known as the creative mind behind Konami's Metal Gear series. He also directed Snatcher and Policenauts and is the producer of the Zone Of The Enders and Boktai. He is currently the head of Kojima Productions. He's also leading the team working on the new Castlevania game.
His games have a cerebral element, often playing with the fourth wall. Expect to see giant robots, discussions on the nature of love, discussions on the nature of war, and shameless references to the media - primarily American movies, of which he is a huge fan. His games often glorify, deconstruct, reference or pastiche Hollywood tropes - and it can be anything from Theme Naming his cast after movie characters to copying an action sequence motion-for-motion.
Kojima has a very strange relationship with his fans, in that, despite his respect for them, he constantly makes fun of them and says things to deliberately infuriate them. The whole of Metal Gear Solid 2, to take the most notorious example, was an extended parody of sequels and fan's expectations thereof, constantly teasing the player by seeming to be more of the same and then going off in completely the other direction.
Metal Gear Solid 3, on the other hand, is a pastiche of 60s spy flicks, from its distinctly James Bond-esque title theme and Cold War setting to the presence of a 'Bond Girl' ('Snake Girl'?) in the form of motorcycle-riding EVA.
He claims to hate making trailers for his games, because they always spoil - as a result, his game trailers tend to be deliberately misleading. Indeed, they often don't have anything to do with the game at all, beyond prominently featuring the main character (or maybe not) and showcasing one or two new game features.
It's notable that the only time he has dropped his polite, cheerful public persona was when he was asked whether Uwe Boll would be directing a Metal Gear Solid movie as he claimed, at which point he blew up and called Boll a "talentless hack". Needless to say, many people were freaked out by this sudden outburst, and even more freaked out when he immediately became calm and serene again afterward.
Apparently has been quite hooked on Left 4 Dead and has joked about "quitting being Japanese", to the extent where he has openly invited western game developers to co-operate with him so that they can find a best-of-both-worlds approach to making video games, combining aspects of western technology-centric and eastern design-centric game design.
Also appears to be a Twilight fan. Make of that what you will.
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