Directors · Hideo Kojima
Hideo Kojima
Hideo Kojima is a Japanese game director born in 1963, associated with cinematic stealth action, fourth-wall experimentation, and cutscene-heavy storytelling that splits audiences between admiration and impatience — sometimes in the same forum thread.
At Konami he steered the Metal Gear Solid era before departing in 2015 and founding Kojima Productions. The first independent project, Death Stranding, doubled down on courier-sim pacing and oddball casting choices; love-it-or-hate-it discourse followed, which is almost on-brand.
Select directed or lead-directed releases (release order)
- Metal Gear (1987)
- Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake (1990)
- Metal Gear Solid (1998)
- Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (2001)
- Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (2004)
- Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (2008)
- Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes (2014)
- Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (2015)
- Death Stranding (2019)
- Death Stranding 2: On the Beach (2025)
Kojima's exact credit line varies by project; this list follows titles commonly cited in director retrospectives.
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