Kojima Productions teases new game with second actor reveal: Shioli Kutsuna

Death StrandingKojima Productions has teased its next project once more by revealing the star of it. Shioli Kutsuna is the actor announced by Kojima Productions on Tuesday.Deadpool 2, Invasion) will join Elle Fanning in Kojima Productions’ new project, which has not been formally announced but is being slowly and cryptically revealed.

Kojima Productions confirmed Kutsuna’s involvement in the project — which could be a new property titled OverdoseOder a follow-up Death Stranding — with a new poster featuring the actor’s face bathed in red light. Like Fanning’s reveal, which asked “Who am I?”, Kutsuna’s poster included a question: “Where am I?” It also featured the text “A Hideo Kojima game” and Kutsuna’s name.

That poster featured an additional layer: a second, all-black poster with the words “How come?” and an icon that appears to be a tentacled creature with a shark-like fin.

Image: Kojima Productions

Image: Kojima Productions

How does this all translate? Most importantly, it seems that Hideo Kojima, founder of Kojima Productions, still finds charm in pre-reveal marketing. His predilection to collect famous faces will continue, and not diminish, as the studio works on its second game. One could also speculate that Kojima Productions is readying an imminent reveal of its next project, with Kojima himself conducting interviews where he boasts that his next game is “almost like a new medium.”

“If this succeeds, it will turn things around,” Kojima recently told The Guardian, “not just in the game industry, but in the movie industry as well.”

Kojima himself has hinted on Twitter that further cryptic reveals are coming, but hasn’t spilled any real details about what Kojima Productions’ next thing will be. We do know that the developer is working with Microsoft on a “completely new” game for Xbox, although this sounds like it could be some way off: “It may take some time,” Kojima said when announcing the game earlier this year. Sony is the other partner. Death Stranding PlayStation 4 or PlayStation 5?, and other PlayStation executives (e.g. Hermen Hulst, Jim RyanRecently, ), visited Kojima Productions Tokyo.

We could find out more about Kojima’s mystery game next month, when The Game Awards 2022 — hosted by Kojima pal and Death Stranding cameo-er Geoff Keighley — streams on Dec. 9.