Kihachiro Kawamoto
Directing·Jan 11, 1925·Tokyo, Japan
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NA/10 avgNo member ratings yetKihachirō 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)
| Film | Credit |
|---|---|
 The Exquisite Short Films of Kihachiro Kawamoto2014 · Director | Director |
 The Book of the Dead2005 · Director | Director |
 Winter Days2003 · Director, Writer | Director, Writer |
 Briar-Rose or the Sleeping Beauty1990 · Director | Director |
 Animated Self-Portraits1989 · Writer, Director | Writer, Director |
 To Shoot Without Shooting1988 · Writer, Director | Writer, Director |
 Self Portrait1988 · Director | Director |
 Rennyo and His Mother1981 · Director | Director |
 House of Flames1979 · Director, Screenplay | Director, Screenplay |
 Dojoji Temple1976 · Director, Screenplay | Director, Screenplay |
 A Poet's Life1974 · Director, Screenplay | Director, Screenplay |
 The Trip1973 · Director | Director |
 The Demon1972 · Screenplay, Director, Producer | Screenplay, Director, Producer |
| AAnthropo-Cynical Farce1970 · Director | Director |
 The Breaking of Branches Is Forbidden1968 · Director, Writer | Director, Writer |