Directing
Kihachiro Kawamoto
EN, JA, ZH cinema · 18 credits
Born
11 January 1925
Died
23 August 2010 (aged 85)
Birthplace
Tokyo, Japan
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
Filmography
The Book of the Dead
Director
Winter Days
Director, Series Director, Writer
The Restaurant of Many Orders
Supervising Animation Director
Animated Self-Portraits
Writer, Director
Self Portrait
Director
To Shoot Without Shooting
Director, Writer
Rennyo and His Mother
Director, Animation
House of Flames
Director, Screenplay, Animation
Dojoji Temple
Director, Screenplay
A Poet's Life
Director, Screenplay
The Trip
Director
The Demon
Director, Screenplay, Animation, Producer
The Breaking of Branches Is Forbidden
Director, Writer