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Hideo Kojima founded the independent Kojima Productions on the 16th of December 2015, in a joint announcement with Sony Computer Entertainment. He was accompanied by Yoji Shinkawa and Kenichiro Imaizumi. An earlier internal team at Konami also bore the Kojima Productions name, formed in April 2005.
Kojima Productions is based in Shinagawa, Tokyo. The studio also opened a small division in Amsterdam in 2016, near Guerrilla Games, and later announced a film and television division in Los Angeles in November 2021.
Kojima Productions released Death Stranding in 2019, followed by Death Stranding: Director's Cut and Death Stranding 2: On the Beach in 2025. The studio is currently developing OD with Xbox Game Studios and Physint in collaboration with Columbia Pictures.
Konami restructured its game development operations in March 2015 and quietly removed the Kojima Productions branding from its websites and buildings. An anonymous Konami employee revealed that Kojima and senior staff had planned to depart in December 2015 after their contracts expired. Kojima went on to establish the independent Kojima Productions on the 16th of December 2015.
A live-action Death Stranding film is being produced with Hammerstone Studios providing funding and A24 also involved. An animated film working under the title Death Stranding: Mosquito is being made with ABC Animation and Lyrical Animation. A Disney+ animated series, working under the title Death Stranding Isolations, is co-produced with E&H Production and planned for 2027.
Physint is a project from Kojima Productions described as both a film and a video game, co-developed with Columbia Pictures. It is categorised as an action-espionage title and was scheduled to enter full development after Death Stranding 2: On the Beach was complete. Casting was suspended in late 2024 due to the video game actors' strike.