Kihachiro Kawamoto

Directing·Jan 11, 1925·Tokyo, Japan

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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)

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
LLittle Black Sambo and his Twin Brother1957 · Producer	Producer
LLittle Black Sambo versus the Tiger1956 · Producer	Producer