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Kihachiro Kawamoto
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 19…
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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)
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2014
The Exquisite Short Films of Kihachiro Kawamoto
Movie Director
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2005
The Book of the Dead
Movie Director
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2003
Winter Days
Movie Director
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1993
Historical Puppet Spectacle: The Tale of the Heike
TV show Art Direction
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1991
The Restaurant of Many Orders
Movie Supervising Animation Director
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1990
Briar-Rose or the Sleeping Beauty
Movie Director
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1989
Animated Self-Portraits
Movie Writer
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1988
To Shoot Without Shooting
Movie Director
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1988
Self Portrait
Movie Director
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1981
Rennyo and His Mother
Movie Director
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1979
House of Flames
Movie Screenplay
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1976
Dojoji Temple
Movie Director
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1974
A Poet's Life
Movie Screenplay
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1973
The Trip
Movie Director
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1972
The Demon
Movie Screenplay
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1970
Anthropo-Cynical Farce
Movie Director
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1968
The Breaking of Branches Is Forbidden
Movie Director
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1957
Little Black Sambo and his Twin Brother
Movie Producer
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1956
Little Black Sambo versus the Tiger
Movie Producer
