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Joshua Wolens

Hideo Kojima's worked out exactly how he wants to die: Kicking the popcorn bucket

Hideo Kojima directing a mocap session.

Hideo Kojima sure has been thinking about death a lot lately. Though he's a pretty spritely 62 years old, the Metal Gear and Death Stranding creator has made our pages recently for things like: talking about deciding to make Physint after a brush with death in 2020, making a game where you get old and die, and how he has a USB stick full of ideas that he will one day leave to his staff that is "'kind of like a will".

Well, here's one more for the pile: Kojima knows how he wants to die. In a post on X (translated by Genki_JPN), Kojima said that—when the time comes—he wants to kick the popcorn bucket. No, really, he wants to die in a cinema: "I'm someone who's always thought when I die, I want to die in a movie theater."

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