Satoshi Kon Birth Festival 2026 Screens Five Works at HUMAX Cinemas
The festival returns for a second year with the same five-title lineup, and this edition anchors Kon's birthday itself with a Paprika 4K remaster and its lead voice actress on stage.
Reporting from 2 sources: Denfaminicogamer, KAI-YOU.
The Satoshi Kon Birth Festival 2026 runs Oct 9-12 at Ikebukuro HUMAX Cinemas and Shibuya HUMAX Cinema. The lineup covers Perfect Blue, Millennium Actress, Tokyo Godfathers, Paprika, and the TV series Paranoia Agent. Talk events feature Megumi Hayashibara, Junko Iwao, Asami Notomi, and Haruko Momoi. A Paprika 4K remaster screens Oct 12, Kon's birthday, with Hayashibara on stage. A pop-up shop runs through Nov 15.
HUMAX ran the same five-title lineup at its 2024 Birth Festival, and the 2026 edition repeats it with collage artist Q-TA returning for the main visual. Event screenings cost 3500 yen; the regular screenings of Millennium Actress and Tokyo Godfathers are 1700 yen. WEB member advance sales open Sept 11 at 10 pm, general sales Sept 12 at midnight.
- Perfect Blue: 4K remaster screens Oct 10 with a talk by Junko Iwao and Sadayuki Murai
- Millennium Actress: 4K digital remaster screens Oct 10
- Tokyo Godfathers: 4K remaster screens Oct 10
- Paprika: 4K remaster screens Oct 12, Kon's birthday, with Megumi Hayashibara on stage
- Paranoia Agent: all-night screening Oct 9 with Asami Notomi and Haruko Momoi
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 2 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.