Director
Kihachiro Kawamoto
Born 1925 · Tokyo, Japan
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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)
Directed
Winter Days
Director · 2003
The Restaurant of Many Orders
Director · 1991
Dojoji Temple
Director · 1976
The Demon
Director · 1972
Rennyo and His Mother
Director · 1981
To Shoot Without Shooting
Director · 1988
Animated Self-Portraits
Director · 1989
Briar-Rose or the Sleeping Beauty
Director · 1990
A Poet's Life
Director · 1974
House of Flames
Director · 1979
Anthropo-Cynical Farce
Director · 1970
The Book of the Dead
Director · 2005
The Breaking of Branches Is Forbidden
Director · 1968
Self Portrait
Director · 1988
The Trip
Director · 1973
The Exquisite Short Films of Kihachiro Kawamoto
Director · 2014