Kihachiro Kawamoto

Director

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)

Born: January 11, 1925 in Tokyo, Japan

Died: August 23, 2010 (Age 85)

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Title	Rating	Job	Role(s)	Year
The Book of the Dead Movie	6.4	Directing	Director	2005
Rennyo and His Mother Movie	6.9	Directing	Director, Animation	1981
A Poet's Life Short Film	6.6	Directing	Director, Screenplay	1974
Animated Self-Portraits Short Film	6.4	Directing	Director, Writer	1989
Anthropo-Cynical Farce Short Film	5.5	Directing	Director	1970
Briar-Rose or The Sleeping Beauty Short Film	7	Directing	Director	1990
A Well-Ordered Restaurant Short Film	6.4	Directing	Director	1992
Dojoji Temple Short Film	6.6	Directing	Director, Screenplay	1976
The Breaking of Branches Is Forbidden Short Film	6.3	Directing	Director	1968
House of Flames Short Film	6.9	Directing	Director, Screenplay, Animation	1979
The Demon Short Film	7	Directing	Director, Screenplay, Producer, Animation	1972
Self Portrait Short Film	5.7	Directing	Director	1988
The Trip Short Film	6.4	Directing	Director	1973
Winter Days Short Film	6.4	Directing	Director, Writer, Series Director	2003
To Shoot Without Shooting Short Film	7.8	Directing	Director, Writer	1988
Title	Rating	Job	Role(s)	Year

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