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The native form of this personal name is Kojima Hideo. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

Hideo Kojima
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Kojima in 2018
Born	(1963-08-24) August 24, 1963 (age 61)^[1] Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
Occupations	Video game designer writer director producer
Years active	1986\u2013present
Notable work	Metal Gear, Snatcher, Policenauts, Zone of the Enders, Death Stranding
Title	Founder of Kojima Productions Executive vice president and corporate officer of Konami Digital Entertainment (2011\u20132015)
Children	2
Website	kojimaproductions.jp
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Hideo Kojima (\u5c0f\u5cf6 \u79c0\u592b, Kojima Hideo, born August 24, 1963) is a Japanese video game designer. Regarded as one of the first auteurs of video games,^[2] he developed a strong passion for film and literature during his childhood and adolescence, which in turn has had a significant influence on his games. In 1986, Kojima joined Konami, for which he directed, designed and wrote Metal Gear (1987) for the MSX2, the game that laid the foundations for the stealth genre and the Metal Gear franchise, his best known and most acclaimed work. At Konami, he also produced the Zone of the Enders series, as well as designing and writing Snatcher (1988) and Policenauts (1994), graphic adventure games regarded for their cinematic presentation.\n

Kojima founded Kojima Productions within Konami in 2005,^[1]^[3] and he was appointed vice president of Konami Digital Entertainment in 2011.^[4] Following his departure from Konami in 2015, he refounded Kojima Productions as an independent studio; his first game outside Konami, Death Stranding, was released in 2019.^[5]\n

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Year\n	Game\n	Credited as\n
1986\n	Penguin Adventure\n	Assistant director\n
1987\n	Metal Gear\n	Director, game designer, writer\n
1988\n	Snatcher\n
1990\n	Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake\n
SD Snatcher\n	Writer\n
1994\n	Policenauts\n	Director, game designer, writer\n
1997\n	Tokimeki Memorial Drama Series Vol. 1\n	Producer\n
1998\n	Tokimeki Memorial Drama Series Vol. 2\n
Metal Gear Solid\n	Director, producer, game designer, writer\n
1998\u20132002\n	Beatmania console ports\n	Producer\n
1999\n	Tokimeki Memorial Drama Series Vol. 3\n	Supervisor\n
2000\u20132002\n	Beatmania IIDX console ports\n	Producer\n
2000\n	Metal Gear: Ghost Babel\n
2001\n	Zone of the Enders\n
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty\n	Director, producer, game designer, writer\n
2003\n	Boktai: The Sun is in Your Hand\n	Producer, game designer\n
Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner\n	Producer\n
2004\n	Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes\n
Boktai 2: Solar Boy Django\n
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater\n	Director, producer, game designer, writer\n
Metal Gear Acid\n	Executive producer\n
2005\n	Shin Bokura no Taiy\u014d: Gyakush\u016b no Sabata\n	Producer\n
Metal Gear Acid 2\n
2006\n	Lunar Knights\n
Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops\n
Kabushiki Baibai Trainer: Kabutore! ^[200]\n
2007\n	Kabushiki Baibai Trainer: Kabutore! Next ^{[citation needed]}\n
2008\n	Super Smash Bros. Brawl\n	Shadow Moses Island stage designer\n
Metal Gear Solid Mobile\n	Supervisor\n
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots\n	Director, producer, game designer, writer\n
Metal Gear Online\n
Twelve Tender Killers ^{[citation needed]}\n	Producer\n
2009\n	Gaitame Baibai Trainer: Kabutore! FX ^{[citation needed]}\n
Metal Gear Solid Touch\n	Executive producer\n
2010\n	Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker\n	Director, producer, game designer, writer\n
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow\n	Executive producer\n
2013\n	Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance\n	Supervising director\n
2014\n	Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes\n	Director, producer, game designer, writer\n
P.T.\n	Director, game designer\n
2015\n	Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain\n	Director, producer, game designer, writer\n
2019\n	Death Stranding\n
2025\n	Death Stranding 2: On the Beach^[201]^[202]^[203]\n
TBA\n	OD\n	TBA\n
Physint (working title)\n

Year\n	Title\n	Role\n	Source\n
1994	Policenauts	AP officer no.2 (uncredited)	\n
1998	Metal Gear Solid	Himself (Japanese version)	\n
1999	Metal Gear Solid: VR Missions	Genola	\n
2008	Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots	Voice of God	^[204]\n
Metal Gear Online	Soldiers	\n
2010	Castlevania: Lords of Shadow	Chupacabra (Japanese voice)	\n
2010	Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker	Himself\n
2014	Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes	Himself	^[204]\n
2015	Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain\n
2019\n	Death Stranding\n	B.T. (uncredited)\n	^[205]\n
2019\n	Control\n	Dr. Yoshimi Tokui\n	^[206]\n
2020\n	Cyberpunk 2077\n	Hideyoshi Oshima\n	^[207]\n

Year\n	Title\n	Role\n	Source\n
2000\n	Versus\n	Extra\n	\n
2003\n	Azumi\n	\n
2017\n	Ultraman Orb The Movie\n	^[208]\n
2019\n	Too Old to Die Young\n	Assassin\n	\n
2023\n	Copenhagen Cowboy\n	Hideo\n	\n

Year\n	Title\n	Role\n	Work\n
2007\n	Spy 2.5 Daisakusen\n	Idea Spy 2.5\n	Audio drama\n
2011\n	Snatcher\n	Little John\n	Radio drama\n
2017\n	The Eleven Little Roosters\n	Himself\n	Web series\n

v t e Video games directed by Hideo Kojima
Metal Gear	\n Metal Gear (1987) \n Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake (1990) \n Metal Gear Solid (1998) \n Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (2001) \n Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (2004) \n Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (2008) \n Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker (2010) \n Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes (2014) \n Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (2015) \n
Death Stranding	\n Death Stranding (2019) \n Death Stranding 2: On the Beach (2025) \n
Other games	\n Snatcher (1988) \n Policenauts (1994) \n P.T. (2014) \n OD (TBA) \n Silent Hills (canceled) \n
Related	\n Kojima Productions \n The Creative Gene \n Abandoned \n
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Year canceled\n	Game\n	Ref\n
1986\n	Lost World\n	\n
2015\n	Silent Hills\n	\n

Early life

Career

Early career

Metal Gear and Snatcher (1987\u20131990)

Metal Gear 2 and Policenauts (1990\u20131994)

Metal Gear Solid subseries and mainstream success (1994\u20132012)

Final Konami projects and departure (2012\u20132015)

Independent studio, Death Stranding and OD (2015\u2013present)

Influences and mentality

Legacy

Themes

Personal life

Awards and accolades

Works

Games

Canceled games

Literary works

Actor roles

Video games

Film and TV

Other

References

Works cited

External links

Hideo Kojima

Talks

4 March, 2005