Kihachiro Kawamoto
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- January 11, 1925
- Place of birth
- Tokyo, Japan
- Died
- August 23, 2010
Biography
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)
Movies directed by Kihachiro Kawamoto
- Dojoji Temple 1976 · ★ 6.3
- The Demon 1972 · ★ 6.3
- Winter Days 2003 · ★ 6.1
- Animated Self-Portraits 1989 · ★ 6.0
- House of Flames 1979 · ★ 5.8
- Briar-Rose or the Sleeping Beauty 1990 · ★ 6.4
- A Poet's Life 1974 · ★ 6.5
- Self Portrait 1988 · ★ 5.7
- To Shoot Without Shooting 1988 · ★ 7.1
- The Book of the Dead 2005 · ★ 6.5
- Anthropo-Cynical Farce 1970 · ★ 6.7
- The Trip 1973 · ★ 5.8
- The Breaking of Branches Is Forbidden 1968 · ★ 6.8
- Rennyo and His Mother 1981 · ★ 9.0
- The Exquisite Short Films of Kihachiro Kawamoto 2014