Kihachiro Kawamoto

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)

Directed

1. Dojoji Temple (1976) — Director
2. The Demon (1972) — Director
3. Winter Days (2003) — Director
4. Animated Self-Portraits (1989) — Director
5. House of Flames (1979) — Director
6. Briar-Rose or the Sleeping Beauty (1990) — Director
7. A Poet's Life (1974) — Director
8. Self Portrait (1988) — Director
9. To Shoot Without Shooting (1988) — Director
10. The Book of the Dead (2005) — Director
11. Anthropo-Cynical Farce (1970) — Director
12. The Trip (1973) — Director
13. The Breaking of Branches Is Forbidden (1968) — Director
14. Rennyo and His Mother (1981) — Director
15. The Exquisite Short Films of Kihachiro Kawamoto (2014) — Director