Who was born first, Richard Curtis or Satoshi Kon?
Richard Whalley Anthony Curtis
Title: Yoshikazu Takeuchi
Passage: Yoshikazu Takeuchi (竹内 義和 , Takeuchi Yoshikazu , born February 27, 1955 in Wakayama Prefecture) is a Japanese writer of fan guides and novels, as well as a radio co-host.  His work was the basis for the 1997 Satoshi Kon anime film "Perfect Blue" and a 2002 live-action film titled "".  Takeuchi's book "Ultraman Visits the Grave" is about a young boy who happens to be a fan of Ultraman.  Takeuchi has expressed interest in getting his work translated for an English-speaking audience.  Seven Seas Entertainment has optioned the English-language rights to the Perfect Blue novels for Q4 2017 and Q1 2018, respectively.
Title: Perfect Blue
Passage: Perfect Blue (パーフェクトブルー , Pāfekuto Burū ) is a 1997 Japanese animated psychological thriller film directed by Satoshi Kon and written by Sadayuki Murai.  It is based on the novel "Perfect Blue: Complete Metamorphosis" (パーフェクト・ブルー　完全変態 , Pāfekuto Burū: Kanzen Hentai ) written by Yoshikazu Takeuchi.  The film follows Mima Kirigoe, the member of a Japanese pop idol group who decides to retire from music to pursue an acting career.  As she becomes a victim of stalking and descends into her first role, she starts to lose her perception of reality and fiction.
Title: Dreaming Machine
Passage: Dreaming Machine (夢みる機械 , Yume Miru Kikai ) is an unfinished Japanese anime fantasy-adventure film by Satoshi Kon.  It would have been the director's fifth feature film.  After Kon's death on August 24, 2010, production continued at Madhouse, where the team used Satoshi Kon's directorial tapes and notes to guide them to completing the film, though the main work such as storyboards and script was already complete.  In August 2011, Madhouse founder Masao Maruyama revealed that production of the film had been halted due to lack of finances.  Only 600 of 1,500 shots have been animated.  However, Maruyama still intends to finish the film, however long it takes.
Title: Memories (1995 film)
Passage: Memories (also "Otomo Katsuhiro's Memories") is a 1995 Japanese animated science fiction anthology film with Katsuhiro Otomo as executive producer, and based on three of his manga short stories.  The film is composed of three shorts: "Magnetic Rose" (彼女の想いで , Kanojo no Omoide ) , directed by Studio 4°C co-founder Kōji Morimoto and written by Satoshi Kon; "Stink Bomb" (最臭兵器 , Saishū-heiki ) , directed by Tensai Okamura of "Darker than Black" fame and written by Otomo, and "Cannon Fodder" (大砲の街 , Taihō no Machi ) , written and directed by Otomo himself.
Title: Satoshi Kon
Passage: Satoshi Kon (今 敏 , Kon Satoshi , October 12, 1963 – August 24, 2010) was a Japanese film director, animator, screenwriter and manga artist from Sapporo, Hokkaidō and a member of the Japanese Animation Creators Association (JAniCA).  He was a graduate of the Graphic Design department of the Musashino Art University.  He is sometimes credited as "Yoshihiro Wanibuchi" (鰐淵良宏 , Wanibuchi Yoshihiro ) in the credits of "Paranoia Agent".  He was the younger brother of guitarist and studio musician Tsuyoshi Kon.
Title: Masashi Ando
Passage: Masashi Ando (安藤 雅司 , Andō Masashi , born 1969) is a Japanese animator and character designer who was born in Hiroshima.  He is known for working with Hayao Miyazaki, Satoshi Kon and Makoto Shinkai.
Title: Paprika (2006 film)
Passage: Paprika (Japanese: パプリカ , Hepburn: Papurika ) is a 2006 Japanese science-fiction anime film co-written and directed by Satoshi Kon, based on Yasutaka Tsutsui's 1993 novel of the same name, about a research psychologist who uses a device that permits therapists to help patients by entering their dreams.  It is Kon's fourth and final feature film before his death in 2010.  The film stars the voices of Megumi Hayashibara, Tōru Emori, Katsunosuke Hori, Tōru Furuya, Akio Ōtsuka, Kōichi Yamadera, and Hideyuki Tanaka.
Title: Opus (manga)
Passage: Opus is a Japanese "seinen" manga series written and illustrated by Satoshi Kon.  The story is about a manga artist who is pulled into the world of the manga he is concluding and forced to confront his characters.  The manga was serialized in the manga magazine "Comic Guys" from October 1995 until the magazine's cancellation in June 1996.  It was collected into two volumes by Tokuma Shoten on December 13, 2010 and included a missing ending found after Kon's death.  Dark Horse Comics licensed the manga in North America and released it in an omnibus edition on December 9, 2014.  The french edition of the manga won the 2013 Asia Critics Prize from the "Association des Critiques et des journalistes de Bande Dessinée" and was nominated for the "Sélection Officiele" at the 2014 Angoulême International Comics Festival.  "Opus" was Kon's final manga before he debuted in the anime industry with "Perfect Blue".
Title: List of Paranoia Agent episodes
Passage: "Paranoia Agent" is a 2004 Japanese anime television series created by Japanese director Satoshi Kon and produced by Madhouse about a social phenomenon in Musashino, Tokyo caused by a juvenile serial assailant named Lil' Slugger.  The series first aired on Japan's WOWOW between February 2, 2004 and May 18, 2004.
Title: Richard Curtis
Passage: Richard Whalley Anthony Curtis, CBE (born 8 November 1956) is a British screenwriter, producer and film director, who was born in New Zealand to Australian parents.  One of Britain's most successful comedy screenwriters, he is known primarily for romantic comedy films such as "Four Weddings and a Funeral", "Bridget Jones's Diary", "Notting Hill", and "Love Actually", as well as the hit sitcoms "Blackadder", "Mr. Bean" and "The Vicar of Dibley".  He is also the co-founder of the British charity Comic Relief along with Sir Lenny Henry.
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