I don't know how many people here are familiar with Satoshi Kon, but he was my favorite Japanese director. He died the other day, you can read about it here. He was working on a new movie when he died.

I felt that he pushed animation in directions almost no one else dare to go and I don't think there is anyone quite like him in Japan, Europe or the Americas. I was talking to my room mate about it and she was saying how she wanted to see Millennium Actress again and I was wondering why I didn't already own it, as it is a film about film-making which is one of my favorite genres. When I looked it up on Amazon it looks like it's out of print and the remaining copies are super expensive. I hope someone re-releases his older films in Blu-ray, they really deserve special treatment.

He was only 46, am about as sad as I can be for the death of someone I don't personally know.