Kihachiro Kawamoto
Born: 1925-01-11 in Tokyo, Japan
Died: 2010-08-23
Known For: Directing
Biography
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)
Filmography
2014
- The Exquisite Short Films of Kihachiro Kawamoto ... (Director)
2005
- The Book of the Dead ... (Director)
2003
- Winter Days ... (Director)
1993
- Historical Puppet Spectacle: The Tale of the Heike ... (Art Direction)
1991
- The Restaurant of Many Orders ... (Director)
1990
- Briar-Rose or the Sleeping Beauty ... (Director)
1989
- Animated Self-Portraits ... (Writer)
1988
- Self Portrait ... (Director)
- To Shoot Without Shooting ... (Director)
1981
- Rennyo and His Mother ... (Director)
1979
- House of Flames ... (Director)
1976
- Dojoji Temple ... (Director)
1974
- A Poet's Life ... (Director)
1973
- The Trip ... (Director)
1972
- The Demon ... (Director)
1970
- Anthropo-Cynical Farce ... (Director)
1968
- Breaking of Branches Is Forbidden ... (Director)