Here's where to spot video game auteur Hideo Kojima in miniseries Too Old To Die Young. Hideo Kojima began his gaming career directing and designing games like the original Metal Gear in 1987 and Snatcher, but he really rose to prominence with 1998's Metal Gear Solid for the PlayStation 1. The third entry in the series helped popularise the stealth genre and made Solid Snake an iconic gaming hero. It also helped bridge the gap between gaming and movies and featured a convoluted storyline filled with memorable characters and cinematic camera work.
Hideo Kojima became something of a video game auteur in the years that followed, with Metal Gear Solid becoming a flagship franchise for Konami. The game's storylines and characters became ever more outlandish while each entry introduced more unique mechanics. Sadly, his time with the franchise came to a famously messy end, with a feud between Kojima and Konami during the development of 2015's Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain resulting in Kojima leaving the publisher on bad terms. This also led to the cancellation of Silent Hills, a planned sequel to the horror franchise he was working on with Guillermo del Toro and Norman Reedus.
By his own admission - and something there's very obvious in his work - Hideo Kojima is a massive movie fan. He's also close friends with filmmakers such as del Toro and Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive), and while Kojima's not really an actor, he's made small appearances in movies and shows, like 2000's zombie action film Versus. He also makes a small appearance in Refn's miniseries Too Old To Die Young.
Too Old To Die Young is a dark, stylish thriller series from Refn and arrived in 2019. It follows Miles Teller's vigilante cop Martin, and in episode 4 "The Tower" he bears witness to a man being punished by the Yakuza for an unpaid debt. Hideo Kojima's "Yakuza Executor" sits in the corner watching this unfold, until the end when the man's finger is held up and Kojima's character cuts it off with the swipe of a katana.
Hideo Kojima's Too Old To Die Young cameo is short but sweet, and he doesn't have any lines of dialogue. Kojima's appearance was presumably a case of returning a favor, with Nicolas Winding Refn's having previously appeared in Kojima's video game Death Stranding as character Heartman. While Refn provided the motion capture and likeness for Heartman, the role was actually voiced by Darren Jacobs.