About
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)
Filmography
The Exquisite Short Films of Kihachiro Kawamoto2014 · Director
The Book of the Dead2005 · Director
Winter Days2003 · Director, Series Director, Writer
The Restaurant of Many Orders1991 · Supervising Animation Director
Briar-Rose or the Sleeping Beauty1990 · Director
Animated Self-Portraits1989 · Writer, Director
To Shoot Without Shooting1988 · Director, Writer
Self Portrait1988 · Director
Rennyo and His Mother1981 · Director, Animation
House of Flames1979 · Screenplay, Director, Animation
Dojoji Temple1976 · Director, Screenplay
A Poet's Life1974 · Screenplay, Director
The Trip1973 · Director
The Demon1972 · Screenplay, Director, Producer, Animation
Anthropo-Cynical Farce1970 · Director
The Breaking of Branches Is Forbidden1968 · Director, Writer
Little Black Sambo and his Twin Brother1957 · Producer
Little Black Sambo versus the Tiger1956 · Producer