Darren Ridgley is a copy editor and member of the adjunct editorial board at the Free Press. Darren has previously worked as a reporter, photographer and editor at weekly newspapers in Drumheller, ...

Japanese Breakfast’s emotionally complex yet largely blissful third LP, ‘Jubilee’, opens with ‘Paprika’ – a triumphant, marching band-inspired lead track influenced by Satoshi Kon’s ...

Kon's last feature-length project, Paprika, brings his slender oeuvre full circle, as it was also a psychological thriller based on a novel. Not that this was planned, as Kon had wanted to adapt ...

There’s no shortage of classic heist movies, but with income inequality on our minds, and billionaires aplenty, the genre is particularly interesting now.

Today, the city of Lugano in Switzerland unveiled an incredible statue honouring Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin’s anonymous founder. I found this tribute incredibly inspiring and beautiful. The statue was ...

Paprika Surreal director, animator, and manga auteur Satoshi Kon's 2006 film Paprika doesn’t just have Inception beat by four years—it's also a far better exploration of dreamscapes.

Satoshi Kon only completed four feature films, but his work inspired fellow filmmakers including Darren Aronofsky, whose films Black Swan and Requiem for a Dream were influenced by Kon’s Perfect ...

The moving adventure that follows comes from director Satoshi Kon, who also directed other classics on this list, including Perfect Blue, Millennium Actress, and Paprika, in his too-short life and ...