The New York Times
この扱いの大きさといったら。
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/26/arts/design/26kon.html?_r=2&src=twt&twt=nytimesarts

“He was part of a line of great Japanese humanist directors and writers,” said Susan J. Napier, a professor of Japanese studies at Tufts University and the author of several books on anime.
In a telephone interview Wednesday, she linked Mr. Kon with Kurosawa, the great animator Hayao Miyazaki (“Spirited Away,” “Princess Mononoke”) and the Nobel Prize-winning novelist Kenzaburo Oe.