Satoshi Kon's final film — a robot road movie that never escaped development hell.
Satoshi Kon's fifth movie. "The title will be Yume Miru Kikai. In English, it will be The Dream Machine. On the surface, it's going to be a fantasy-adventure targeted at younger audiences. However, it will also be a film that people who have seen our films up to this point will be able to enjoy. So it will be an adventure that even older audiences can appreciate. There will be no human characters in the film; only robots. It'll be like a "road movie" for robots."
Direction
Kon chasing one last dream — literally about dreaming machines.
Production
40 minutes completed before funding collapsed. Ghost in the shell.
Director
Satoshi Kon
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Madhouse studio burned through $2.5M of the $8M budget before investors pulled out. Kon reportedly storyboarded the entire film himself.
The 2018 documentary 'Satoshi Kon: The Illusionist' includes the only publicly released footage — roughly 4 minutes of Ririco wandering desolate landscapes.
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