Hideo Kojima: Connecting Worlds turns its camera on the game designer behind the Metal Gear and Death Stranding series, tracing how he built an independent studio after decades inside larger companies.
What is Hideo Kojima: Connecting Worlds about?
The 2023 documentary follows Kojima as he sets up Kojima Productions on his own terms, weaving footage of the studio's early days with reflections from figures across music, film and games who cross paths with his work. Rather than a chronological biography, the film moves through conversations and studio visits that show how Kojima thinks about interactive storytelling, sound design and the blurred line between cinema and play. It captures a moment of transition: an established creator stepping outside a familiar structure to see what an unattached studio can make, and the result is closer to a mood piece than a straightforward career survey.
About the cast
Guillermo del Toro, Grimes, George Miller, Daichi Miura, Lauren Mayberry, Martin Doherty and Iain Cook all appear alongside Kojima, offering outside perspective on his influence across film, music and game design rather than narrating his history themselves.
Context & significance
Director Glen Milner, working across a co-production between the United Kingdom and the United States, treats the documentary format loosely, letting music and visual texture carry as much weight as interview footage. At 60 minutes, the film moves briskly through its subject rather than attempting a full career retrospective, and it arrives at a moment when Kojima Productions had recently released titles that expanded well beyond the studio's original stealth-action reputation.
Watching Hideo Kojima: Connecting Worlds on Ktime
K-Time streams the documentary with a free account login, alongside the rest of its documentary and gaming-adjacent catalogue for Persian-speaking audiences. The Farsi interface makes it easy to browse titles like this one without needing to search in a second language, even though this particular film has no Persian dub or subtitles.