Director
Kihachiro Kawamoto
101 years · Tokyo, Japan · 14 films
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)
Best known for
Filmography 14
The Exquisite Short Films of Kihachiro Kawamoto
2014 · Director
On OVID
The Book of the Dead
2005 · Director
Winter Days
2003 · Director, Writer
Briar-Rose or the Sleeping Beauty
1990 · Director
Animated Self-Portraits
1989 · Writer, Director
To Shoot Without Shooting
1988 · Director, Writer
Self Portrait
1988 · Director
Rennyo and His Mother
1981 · Director
House of Flames
1979 · Screenplay, Director
Dojoji Temple
1976 · Director, Screenplay
A Poet's Life
1974 · Screenplay, Director
The Trip
1973 · Director
The Demon
1972 · Screenplay, Director
The Breaking of Branches Is Forbidden
1968 · Director, Writer