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.
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Filmography 17
Briar-Rose or the Sleeping Beauty
Dojoji Temple
The Demon
Winter Days
House of Flames
Animated Self-Portraits
To Shoot Without Shooting
A Poet's Life
Self Portrait
The Book of the Dead
The Trip
The Breaking of Branches Is Forbidden
Rennyo and His Mother
The Exquisite Short Films of Kihachiro Kawamoto32 credits on file
Awards 3
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About this person
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.
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