Kihachiro Kawamoto
Directing
- Born
- January 11, 1925 · Tokyo, Japan
- Died
- August 23, 2010 (age 85)
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)
Known for
The Restaurant of Many Orders
August 3, 1991
Dojoji Temple
December 31, 1976
The Demon
May 4, 1972
Winter Days
November 27, 2003
Animated Self-Portraits
June 1, 1989
House of Flames
December 31, 1979
Briar-Rose or the Sleeping Beauty
August 10, 1990
A Poet's Life
October 26, 1974
Self Portrait
January 1, 1988
To Shoot Without Shooting
January 10, 1988
The Book of the Dead
July 1, 2005
The Trip
January 1, 1973
Behind the camera18
- 2014The Exquisite Short Films of Kihachiro Kawamoto Director
- 2005The Book of the Dead Director
- 2003Winter Days Director, Writer, Series Director
- 1991The Restaurant of Many Orders Supervising Animation Director
- 1990Briar-Rose or the Sleeping Beauty Director
- 1989Animated Self-Portraits Writer, Director
- 1988To Shoot Without Shooting Writer, Director
- 1988Self Portrait Director
- 1981Rennyo and His Mother Director, Animation
- 1979