Legendary Japanese game director Hideo Kojima has made no secret regarding his love for director SS Rajamouli’s latest film ‘RRR’. Rajamouli whose film has gone wild internationally has not missed its mark in Japan as the 3-hour epic action drama has blown over there receiving great acclaim and has won great praise from the Japanese audience, Kojima included.

 In his latest Spotify podcast ‘Hideo Kojima presents Brain Structure’, the game director alongside Rajamouli has spoken about some of his favourite parts about the movie including heaping praise on the VFX, drama, action, scope, storytelling and the overall concept while Rajamouli is explaining the premise of the film, his inspirations, ideas, themes and overall ambitions he had for the film.

 The creator of Metal Gear and Death Stranding spoke wildly of the film’s concept and epic scope as well as its entertainment value, even comparing it to ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ and said how in such a dark time during post Pandemic recovery, ever increasing prices of goods, Russia-Ukraine war, and even the threat of ballistic missiles from North Korea, great quality entertainment is of paramount importance, while Rajamouli said that for him entertainment is a very serious business.

 Kojima himself being a creator with wild and unconventional ideas speaks of the comparison between the movie and Death Stranding, the conveying of emotions in different formats between gaming and movies, aspect of storytelling, concepts, elements of world building, audience interaction and connection with the story and emotions.

 Rajamouli spoke of the wild and intuitive ways in which Kojima immersed his audience into gameplay, as he saw the cinematic for Death Stranding and spoke of the game’s deep level of immersion without uttering a single piece of dialogue in the cinematic.

Furthermore, Rajamouli and Kojima both spoke of the radical differences they had in their methods and ideas regarding storytelling and concepts and yet possessing a sort of similarity.

The two also spoke of the possibility of a future project, be it in gaming or filmmaking as the two possess greatly different yet similar mentalities when it comes to having wild ideas and being masters in their respective fields.