Kihachiro Kawamoto

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)

Crew

The Book of the Dead

Director

A Poet's Life

Screenplay, Director

Winter Days

Director, Series Director, Writer

The Demon

Screenplay, Director, Producer, Animation

House of Flames

Screenplay, Director, Animation

Dojoji Temple

Director, Screenplay

The Restaurant of Many Orders

Director

Briar-Rose or the Sleeping Beauty

Director

The Trip

Director

Anthropo-Cynical Farce

Director

Breaking of Branches Is Forbidden

Director

Self Portrait

Director

Rennyo and His Mother

Director, Animation

The Exquisite Short Films of Kihachiro Kawamoto

Director

To Shoot Without Shooting

Director, Writer

Animated Self-Portraits

Writer, Director