Kihachiro Kawamoto

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1925-01-11

Deathday 2010-08-23 (85 years old)

Place of Birth Tokyo, Japan

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)

Known For

Director

2005
2003
Winter Days

as Director

2003
Winter Days

as Series Director

1989
1988
Self Portrait

as Director

1981
1979
House of Flames

as Director

1976
Dojoji Temple

as Director

1974
A Poet's Life

as Director

1973
The Trip

as Director

1972
The Demon

as Director

1970

Writer

2003
Winter Days

as Writer

1979
House of Flames

as Screenplay

1976
Dojoji Temple

as Screenplay

1974
A Poet's Life

as Screenplay

1972
The Demon

as Screenplay

Visual Effects

1981
1979
House of Flames

as Animation

1972
The Demon

as Animation

Producer

1972
The Demon

as Producer