Kihachiro Kawamoto
Kihachirō Kawamoto (川本 喜八郎) was a Japanese puppet designer and maker, independent film director, screenwriter and animator and president of the Japan Animation Association from 1989, succeeding founder Osamu Tezuka, until his own death. He is best-remembered in Japan as designer of the puppets for the long-running NHK live action television series of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms in the early 1980s and The Tale of the Heike in the 1990s but better-known internationally for his own animated short films, the majority of which are model animation but which also include the cutout animation Tabi and Shijin no Shōgai and mixed media, French-language Farce anthropo-cynique. (Wikipedia)
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Films (18)
The Exquisite Short Films of Kihachiro Kawamoto
2014 · Director
The Book of the Dead
2005 · Director
Jours d'hiver
2003 · Director, Writer, Series Director
The Restaurant of Many Orders
1991 · Supervising Animation Director
Briar-Rose or the Sleeping Beauty
1990 · Director
Animated Self-Portraits
1989 · Writer, Director
To Shoot Without Shooting
1988 · Writer, Director
Self Portrait
1988 · Director
Rennyo and His Mother
1981 · Director, Animation
House of Flames
1979 · Director, Screenplay, Animation
Dojoji Temple
1976 · Director, Screenplay
A Poet's Life
1974 · Director, Screenplay
The Trip
1973 · Director
The Demon
1972 · Screenplay, Director, Producer, Animation
Anthropo-Cynical Farce
1970 · Director
The Breaking of Branches Is Forbidden
1968 · Director, Writer
Little Black Sambo and his Twin Brother
1957 · Producer
Little Black Sambo versus the Tiger
1956 · Producer
