Anime director Satoshi Kon dies, aged 46.
Kon passed away passed yesterday after losing a battle with pancreatic cancer.
The filmmaker’s work includes Perfect Blue, Millennium Actress and Paprika.
Kon was working on fantasy-adventure animation, “Yumemiru Kikai (Dream Machine)”, due for release in 2011, at the time of his death. Featuring a futuristic adventure starring a robot, it would have been his first work aimed at children after he produced a series of what he called “animations which adults can enjoy”.