Satoshi Kon was born in 1963. He studied at the Musashino College of the Arts. He began his career as a Manga artist. He then moved to animation and worked as a background artist on many films (including Rôjin Z (1991) by 'Katsuhiro Otomo'). Then, in 1995, he wrote an episode of the anthology film Memorîzu (1995) (this Episode was "Magnetic Rose"). In 1997, he directed his first feature film: the excellent Kusursuz mavi (1997). In 2001, he finished work on his second feature film, Milenyum Aktrisi (2001) (aka Millennium Actress).