
Kihachiro Kawamoto
Known for directing · Born 11 January 1925 · Died 23 August 2010 · aged 85 · 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)
Known for

The Restaurant of Many Orders
1991

Dojoji Temple
1976

The Demon
1972

Winter Days
2003

Animated Self-Portraits
1989

Historical Puppet Spectacle: The Tale of the Heike
1993

House of Flames
1979

Briar-Rose or the Sleeping Beauty
1990

Self Portrait
1988

A Poet's Life
1974

To Shoot Without Shooting
1988

The Book of the Dead
2005