# Kihachirō Kawamoto

> Kihachirō Kawamoto  was a Japanese puppet designer, independent film director, screenwriter, animator and the second president of the Japan Animation Association, succeeding founder Osamu Tezuka in 1989 and serving 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 Puppet theater, 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.

*Japanese anime director (1925–2010)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Movie Director ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999))
- **Category:** Directors
- **Country:** Japan
- **Born:** 1925-01-11
- **Died:** 2010-08-23
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

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## Fame
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## Platforms
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1680531/ (@nm1680531)

## Sources
- [川本喜八郎](https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B7%9D%E6%9C%AC%E5%96%9C%E5%85%AB%E9%83%8E)
- [كيهاكيرو كاواموتو](https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88_%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%88)
- [Kihachirō Kawamoto](https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kihachir%C5%8D_Kawamoto)
- [Kawamoto Kihachirō](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawamoto_Kihachir%C5%8D)
- [Kihachirō Kawamoto](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kihachir%C5%8D_Kawamoto)
- [Kihachirō Kawamoto](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kihachir%C5%8D_Kawamoto)
- [کیهاچیرو کاواموتو](https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%87%D8%A7%DA%86%DB%8C%D8%B1%D9%88_%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%88)
- [Kihachirō Kawamoto](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kihachir%C5%8D_Kawamoto)
- [川本喜八郎](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B7%9D%E6%9C%AC%E5%96%9C%E5%85%AB%E9%83%8E)
- [Кавамото, Кихатиро](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BE%2C_%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BE)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q997647)
- [Kihachiro Kawamoto](https://www.themoviedb.org/person/233545)

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