Kihachiro Kawamoto
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- January 11, 1925
- Died
- August 23, 2010
- Birthplace
- Tokyo, Japan
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)
Filmography
The Exquisite Short Films of Kihachiro Kawamoto 2014
Director
The Book of the Dead 2005
Director
Winter Days 2003
Director, Series Director, Writer
The Restaurant of Many Orders 1991
Supervising Animation Director
Briar-Rose or the Sleeping Beauty 1990
Director
Animated Self-Portraits 1989
Writer, Director
To Shoot Without Shooting 1988
Director, Writer
Self Portrait 1988
Director
Rennyo and His Mother 1981
Director, Animation
House of Flames 1979
Director, Screenplay, Animation
Dojoji Temple 1976
Director, Screenplay
A Poet's Life 1974
Director, Screenplay
The Trip 1973
Director
The Demon 1972
Director, Screenplay, Animation, Producer
- Anthropo-Cynical Farce
Anthropo-Cynical Farce 1970
Director
The Breaking of Branches Is Forbidden 1968
Director, Writer
- Little Black Sambo and his Twin Brother
Little Black Sambo and his Twin Brother 1957
Producer
- Little Black Sambo versus the Tiger
Little Black Sambo versus the Tiger 1956
Producer
Credits from TMDB.