Kihachiro Kawamoto
Directing
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
Directing15
movieThe Book of the Dead
2005
Director
movieWinter Days
2003
Director, Series Director
movieAnimated Self-Portraits
1989
Director
movieSelf Portrait
1988
Director
movieRennyo and His Mother
1981
Director
movieHouse of Flames
1979
Director
movieDojoji Temple
1976
Director
movieA Poet's Life
1974
Director
movieThe Trip
1973
Director
movieThe Demon
1972
Director
Writing8
movieWinter Days
2003
Writer
movieHouse of Flames
1979
Screenplay
movieDojoji Temple
1976
Screenplay
movieA Poet's Life
1974
Screenplay
movieThe Demon
1972
Screenplay
Visual Effects4
movieThe Restaurant of Many Orders
1991
Supervising Animation Director
movieRennyo and His Mother
1981
Animation
movieHouse of Flames
1979
Animation
movieThe Demon
1972
Animation
