Kihachiro Kawamoto

Director

1925-01-11 – 2010-08-23 · 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)

• Chuumon no Ooi Ryouriten (1991) — Supervising Animation Director
• 道成寺 (1976) — Director, Screenplay
• 鬼 (1972) — Screenplay, Director, Producer, Animation
• 冬の日 (2003) — Director, Series Director, Writer
• Animated Self-Portraits (1989) — Writer, Director
• 火宅 (1979) — Screenplay, Director, Animation
• いばら姫またはねむり姫 (1990) — Director
• 詩人の生涯 (1974) — Screenplay, Director
• 自画像 (1988) — Director
• 不射之射 (1988) — Director, Writer
• El libro de los muertos (2005) — Director
• 旅 (1973) — Director
• 花折り (1968) — Director, Writer
• 蓮如とその母 (1981) — Director, Animation
• The Exquisite Short Films of Kihachiro Kawamoto (2014) — Director