Some early images of Konami's Metal Gear Solid series producer Hideo Kojima have been circulating on the net, showing him in his early 20s, he was once a member of a violence group in college. Kojima moved to western Japan at the age of three. Kojima has said that early on in his life he often had to deal with death, as his father was an influential member of the Yakuza, and was plagued by enemy gang violence.

Taken in 1983

Now and then

Members of the violence group