Kojima Translations Blog

 Last week DS2 sales started. Today we will report live with Mr. Kojima from London. It’s 2pm here in London.  2:30 K: Were you able to have a drink at Parco?Yes! I had Sam’s blood transfusion drink, by takeout from Kome & Circus from Parco B1 floor.  3:00 A few hours after release, you flew to Paris.Yes, I had opening event with Mr. Shin and Ottokito. we were on a boat in Paris, rocking on a boat like an earthquake.  3:30 Yesterday by private jet, we went to London. The plane was 2-3 hrs. late and landed in a different airport, plus 2 hrs drive into London. so it took 5 hours. It would have been faster to take the Eurostar. Might need a parachute next time. Ha ha. Sometimes things don’t go smoothly, like Tom (Cruise).  4:00 I love London! We had a photo Opportunity, and music there is similar to a Live House in Tokyo.  Now at Denmark street, at a place called Outer Net. DS2 Tunnel, it took us 2 years to try and get that spot. It’s near our DS2  po...

 Today I brought the rough draft of the final trailer. We can watch it without audio. During my next business trip, I will edit it in 4K. Recorder 6.23, two hours before early access.  MAYBE Final trailer will be 26th, Japan time, evening. Still editing the sound.  —— Visited Australian and George miller. It was Fall and cool in Australia. Similar to Singapore. Saw some fireworks too. I was able to have deep detailed discussion about film making with him. I highly respect him. I expect there will be video of it coming soon. I had time in the morning to visit the zoo. 6:00 📖 Japanese Book Discussion: Prisoner of Poltergeist by Kaziki Kamijo, is for sale from June 30, 2025 12:30 Welcome! Kenjio Tsuda, the Japanese voice of Sam Porter. The work took about a year. Seeing the visual first, then recording the Japanese voice.  What’s special about working with Kojima? Being able to see the spectacular visuals is really special.  With Dollman, he talks too much, so it’...

Today we welcome Daichi Miura to play DS. Kojima is a bit nervous. First time in world, to play with these sounds. Miura is shaken.  Only 10 more days. This t-shirt will be available at Parco from the 23rd. Woodkid’s soundtrack is out since  the 13th. Sony’s trailer has been out since the 10th.  4:46, Edited: 26日の公開   “ Speaking of my final trailer, I'm currently working on it and it will be released on the 26th. ”  I brought it unwrapped today! A: Oh!  The last I heard was that you were on business trips. K: oh yes, I edited he 4K during my travel. I arrived at Handeda at 5pm and then put this rough trailer together. Today is the rough version. You guys will be able to,Watch, but the audio isn’t added yet. A: We will be in shock, and unable to say anything.  (A: Announcer) 5:45 - 7:00: DS2 Final Trailer - no audio. Fire, main  theme audio, oh so cute; wearing an apron; so sleep after eating;  What’s that! Oh so cute; it dropped.  O...

 Finished red carpet in LA. Next I need to go to Australia. Still not finished  making the final trailer. I might make it on the airplane. Take pics of hints, then arrange the trailer in my head, and finally pit it together as soon as I get Back. Wow, he’s always thinking of putting things together. it will be an expecting as well as a betrayal theme. What’s he doing ?!? Kind of a trailer. It might change, but that’s what’s on my mind right now. 5:00 Today Daichi Miura will visit us. First a bit about Woodkid, main theme, is about 10 versions will be available. 2020 I was able to meet him at a hotel lobby on my last day. He allowed me to listen to Urayas for his own CD. and it was a great song, we used on DS1 directors cut. PV. He made one more song, and we used Zoom. Eventually I asked him to make song for DS2.  Grayas PV was similar to DS, and I felt scary, so we agreed on the scary feelings. Ha ha.  DS2 song was made in the Tokyo office, about 4-5 years ago. We ma...

 It’s June 1. Death Stranding Goes on sale June 26. This month.!  Congratulations on getting your gold copy. I’m sure everybody is looking forward to playing the game. Now I think I might be able to eat some of this surprise.cake too. Ha ha ha. Even though I got the gold master copy, we still continue to check things and if there’s something that they don’t like, we also fix that. With patches, especially during this digital age. Gradually make a shift to promotions. Making the final trailer, The models, and books, etc. Even though sales start, the promotion team still needs to make The 3-D plastic models one by one, etc. I’m even thinking about the next projects. And when I push out a timeline, my coworkers are thinking about their holidays and they don’t like it very much. Ha ha ha. Our timing is different. 5:00 There are a lot of business trips coming up. June 6: The Los Angeles game fest is a big one. June 8: Los Angeles Red Carpet. We borrowed a theatre and the DS2 cast w...

 Final trailer production. It should be out one to two weeks before the game comes out. It won’t be full of details. I’m thinking of just doing a general overall view, like this is what the game is going to be about. It’ll be a short trailer, but I do hope it will have lots of new information in it as well. Did have a bit of a holiday during golden week, and I do have a lot of business trips coming up due to the orchestra presentations. A lot of people are interested in Charlie. From Charlie’s Angels. In Charlie’s Angels Charlie is just the voice. He gets lots of money to get the jobs done. And the girls help him do the work. Tom Cruise name dropping. The timing was difficult to meet with him. Radio station announcer talks about wanting to go for brunch. If Kojima can Attend in a regular suit and long neck tight that that’s what he’s planning to do. He’s not sure about the tuxedo situation yet. In the past, The announcer has been able to Be close to interviewing Tom Cruise, and als...

 Went to Cannes. During the session a long necktie was allowed, however the red carpet required a tuxedo. I was able to watch Robert Pattinson’s new movie called: Die, My Love. It also had an after party that I was able to get tickets for by calling on Robert Pattinson himself. Right now I cannot explain my relationship with to him.  After a break, I was able to exchange a few kind words with Coraline Fargeat of the movie Substance. Lots of people flowing thru Cannes, coming and going, so I couldn’t meet many people. I heard someone call my name but wasn’t sure at the time. It seems to have been Ishikawa Keika.  Here were lots of famous people staying there, including staying on yachts that are being used as hotels. It seems most people also ate their meals inside hotels. As most people are discussing films, they don’t tend to eat much, and they’re May have been more dancing events. Then I went to Denmark, Copenhagen, which was a bit chilly outside. How about we do a Koji...

 As we are recording this on April 22, how are you feeling about the sales date? It’s getting close now. Maybe they have made the master copy and starting to prepare the babies. You’re having an event preview? Yes the writers and about 30 people total will attend for a few days. It was very quiet. How did you react to them? When I was younger, I used to interfere and I’ve learned that it’s best to wait. So what did you see? Some people are busy looking at the editing mode, the camera panning, beautification settings, etc. We had to prepare some services for them such as lunches and snacks and a tour of Koji pro., As well as a boat tour. The game is About bringing people together so it’s interesting when they start talking about things that they found in the game and asking where did you get that from? Etc. From May 13, I have a national event to attend And it turns out my tuxedo that I’ve made previously is 4 cm too small. They’ve adjusted the buttons as much as possible, and I hav...

Let’s have the best 10 PM ever.  K: How about we get rid of pre-recorded shows?  Let’s see how we change after drinking. K:  Alcohol doesn’t affect me. I don’t get drunk. My dad used to have a glass so that’s about it then it’s 35 years old and has changed a bit, but I don’t drink because I have to get out and work the next day. We have champagne and wine. If I’m with an old buddy, it would be a beer.  For this episode we are in Akasaka Chuugoku Chabo 8, a Chinese food Cafe.  K: Did you know that if your’re riding a bike at 60kms per hour your visual perception changes?  What you can see becomes limited.  Maybe don’t wanna see anything. Let’s try to get thru lotsa emails. You can email the show at: **koji10@tbs.co.jp** If we use your email, we will send a Koji10 sticker. 🎵 Godiego’s Gandara K: I like this song as it’s about an unseen Utopia. People want to go somewhere else, but that utopia doesn’t exist. Darn! We must make our own desires come true. ...

 Announcer: today we’re doing the program live. So I’ll be prepared for lots of beeps. Our heme today is: What are you doing during this Golden Week?  Kojima: What happens if I get fired from my own show? I do not accept. Ha ha ha. Announcer: So you have a new exhibition together with Nicholas in Aoyama, Omotesando.  Kojima: Yeah, You can come watch two old guys talking on old monitors for about 2 1/2 hours. Ha ha. The monitors are on tape, and digitalized through satellites. So the show is about the use of satellites and how we can put these things together. It’s in a bit of a strange building so that you have to Enter using an elevator. It’s in a nice area so you can do some shopping or coffee shop afterwards.  Announcer: What special about today’s show? Kojima: Today’s live and we can hear from Nicholas himself. 7:30: (English) Hello everyone you are listening to Koji10, And this is Nicholas Winding Ref’n. My exhibition with Hideo is going on at Prada Aoyama Tokyo...

 Koji 10, episode 14, Monday April 21.  DS related: Already confirmed: A24 will make DS movie, Director: Michael Sarnoski, Producer: Ari Aster. Just starting. No new information yet. —— Today’s Music: 🎵 Night or Day by Frank Ferdinand. Today’s Theme: Movies Guest: Hidetoshi Nishijima of  🎥 Drive My Car They watch a lot of movies together and discuss details of how a movie may have been made. They are challenging conversations that lead to late night discussions and being the last ones to leave a restaurant. How they met:  They met in LA as they happened to be staying at the same hotel. At our age, “What the heck are you doing!?!” Is a common response, but when we get together, it becomes a creative energetic discussion. Movies briefly discussed: mostly discuss trying to figure out how a scene was made. **Koji 10, episode 14, Monday April 21.  DS related: Already confirmed: A24 will make DS movie, Director: Michael Sarnoski, Producer: Ari Aster. Just starting. ...

 Welcome to a blue side Monday evening let’s try to make a great day. This season two of Koji 10 is six times longer. Let’s try to make it 100 times more information. On Saturday and Sunday I’m usually home and then Monday I get swamped with a lot of mail and memos. Staff making Memos all weekend long.  So the game has 20 million porters playing how do you feel about that? Well, it’s kind of a scary thought. But at first it was PS4 and that continued for five years then The directors cut, and finally PS five. So these are actual people playing not just sales. I really want people to remember this game after five or 10 years. I don’t want them to just forget about it and say that was happened back then. It’s a bit of a strange game, but I really want people to continue playing 10 years from now. The P.V. Has increased again. And it’s OK to start from DS too. We raise the bar quite a bit. I hope people will be able to see the many feet and bridges that they have made. Sony is pr...

Well, next time we’ll be 10 times at Koi 10. Maybe we can do a review of all 10 minutes. Kojima says how about Koji5 ? We want to continue. it’ll be high and bye real quick!  Today’s theme is making video games. Am I going to tell you everything? Ha ha! Well, with Indies games we pretty much have to do it ourselves. Our style doesn’t resonate with the large industry companies. My style is a little bit special. Being a bit older, I can’t try just anything. But it’s still below the surface. Like 30 or 40 years ago the style we had I find lovely. Normally company would have 3 to 4 CGI people. Recently money people and me too lately but basically I do it all myself. In the past, we made the game with only a few people and that was about 30 or 40 years ago. Now in Indies, too, simply put, they call me Kantoku, which means the Director. However, I also produce scenarios, designs, all the music. In a normal company, they have 3 to 4 CGI movie people, 4 to 5 of each gaming people scenarios...

 5 Years Anniversary Message:  Translation:  it’s November 8 and DS came out five years ago. Thank you very much Sam and all the 19 million porters. It is on many platforms now. Also since three years ago, directors cut has been sold. These days people are still playing the game they have cosplay and photos and, many thanks to everyone who has been playing with this game for a long time. Now we are developing the DS2 as mentioned on SMS. It’s the most important time for the game development. We are putting the pieces together and it’s a very hands-on time. I am checking to make sure that it’s a good product. I cannot confirm the sales date so please stay tuned. Thank you. https://x.com/kojipro2015/status/1854724273249923345?s=61

  Air date: Nov.6, 2024 Koji 10, コジ10, S.1, Ep.6: Best Phone Consultations Guest 1: I have a small voice, Even when I make requests, talk on the phone or with friends. Fluence speech is difficult. It doesn’t come across as being useful or lively, but I want to be able to talk like Mr. Kojima. K: Oh hello there. Are you close to a phone as much as possible? Your voice is like a drama can you sing? My suggestion is to How your boyfriend decrease his volume and then your voices can be on The same level romantically. You have an attractive voice. Usually everyone hates their own voice. Guest 1: at the most, I can only sing two songs until my voice gets hoarse. I heard about you via Daichi Miura.  K: OK! I will tell him to adjust and help you. Can you say Koji 10? I can use it! Your voice is like a voice actors. How about your angry voice? Oh, it’s the same soft voice. That’s aI will tell him to adjust and help you. Can you say Koji 10? I can use it! Your voice is like an voice act...

 Air date: Oct.30,  2024 Koji 10, S.1, ep.5: Q&A, robots :  Q1: do you have anxieties or get confused while you are on new projects? I’m always confused. I use the environment to research ahead. It works much better. If you don’t have anxiety, then you’re making a mistake. For example, you could always be afraid of Godzilla coming. I look forward and plan to fights ahead of time. I have plan, B, C, D prepped. You fight while crossing that bridge. Ask a lot of questions and it helps a lot. Q2: To call how about some business guidance? Talking to people and getting warnings from them gives me energy. At work they are people, not family so you’re not invested as much so you don’t get angry. But if it doesn’t go my way, I tend to come out strong in waves of ups and downs. so it’s best to leave it alone, take a downtime, collect my thoughts, meetings, and think about how to say what I actually want to say. Q3: how about your relax time? Relax I don’t relax, I tend to take ...

 Koji 10, S1, Ep.4: Best movies:  First 10 minutes: Announcer: we have a lot of emails that we can deal with during the later part of the show.  Kojima: there are a lot of movies that I love. Today we just talk about anime. This year I have a best three selection for 2024. 1) Look Back by Taki Oshiyama 2) Flow - about a black cat 3) Robot Dreams by Pablo Berger, who is the same age as me. ————- Robot Dreams is based on a graphic novel.  *** contains: ROBOT DREAMS SPOILERS *** A dog makes a robot. He can’t make decisions. The robot rusts and the dog tries to repair it. It’s based in New York in the 1980s so it’s an American style movie.  The dog is lonely he plays games, and sees a couple through the window. Like taxi driver. We are not alone. The first half is like a partner date type of film then suddenly we get the September twin towers incident. The atmosphere of New York, twin towers and the loneliness.  Then on the beach, the oil is gone, but he goes t...