Hideo Kojima
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"Hideo Kojima"/?? ?? /Kojima Hideo/born August 24, 1963}} is a Japanese video game designer, writer, and Game producer/producer originally employed at Konami. He is the director of Kojima Productions and was promoted to Vice President of Konami Digital Entertainment in early 2011. His previous positions include being vice president of Konami/Konami Computer Entertainment Japan.

He is the creator, director and writer of a number of successful video games, including the Metal Gear series of stealth games and the adventure games Snatcher and Policenauts, and he also produced series such as Zone of the Enders, Boktai and Castlevania: Lords of Shadow. Kojima is consistently named by fans and industry experts alike as being one of the most influential and innovative Video game producer/video game directors and writers in the industry.

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Should I use this opportunity to start doing daily headstands?

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This fourth is going to be the final one for me and Shinkawa. There are other things that we want to create.

[While Kojima may be ready to move on, the Metal Gear series has been the seasoned Konami director's life's work--so far.] I originally wanted to make movies and novels, but I just couldn't do it, ... I was really hyped up about making Metal Gear, since it was going to be a game about war.

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