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Kihachiro Kawamoto (1925-2010)

Alias:
川本喜八郎

Birthplace:
Tokyo, Japan

Born:
January 11, 1925

Died:
August 23, 2010

Biography from TheMovieDB

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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Film Production

Animation:
1972  The Demon
1979  House of Flames
1981  Rennyo and His Mother

Director:
1968  Breaking of Branches is Forbidden
1970  Anthropo-Cynical Farce
1972  The Demon
1973  The Trip
1974  A Poet's Life
1976  Dojoji Temple
1979  House of Flames
1981  Rennyo and His Mother
1988  Self Portrait
1988  To Shoot Without Shooting
1989  Animated Self-Portraits
1990  Briar-Rose or the Sleeping Beauty
1991  The Restaurant of Many Orders
2003  Winter Days
2005  The Book of the Dead
2014  The Exquisite Short Films of Kihachiro Kawamoto

Producer:
1968  Breaking of Branches is Forbidden
1970  Anthropo-Cynical Farce
1972  The Demon
1973  The Trip
1974  A Poet's Life
1976  Dojoji Temple
1979  House of Flames
1981  Rennyo and His Mother
1988  Self Portrait
1988  To Shoot Without Shooting
1989  Animated Self-Portraits
1990  Briar-Rose or the Sleeping Beauty
1991  The Restaurant of Many Orders
2003  Winter Days
2005  The Book of the Dead
2014  The Exquisite Short Films of Kihachiro Kawamoto

Screenplay:
1968  Breaking of Branches is Forbidden
1970  Anthropo-Cynical Farce
1972  The Demon
1973  The Trip
1974  A Poet's Life
1976  Dojoji Temple
1979  House of Flames
1981  Rennyo and His Mother
1988  Self Portrait
1988  To Shoot Without Shooting
1989  Animated Self-Portraits
1990  Briar-Rose or the Sleeping Beauty
1991  The Restaurant of Many Orders
2003  Winter Days
2005  The Book of the Dead
2014  The Exquisite Short Films of Kihachiro Kawamoto

Series Director:
1968  Breaking of Branches is Forbidden
1970  Anthropo-Cynical Farce
1972  The Demon
1973  The Trip
1974  A Poet's Life
1976  Dojoji Temple
1979  House of Flames
1981  Rennyo and His Mother
1988  Self Portrait
1988  To Shoot Without Shooting
1989  Animated Self-Portraits
1990  Briar-Rose or the Sleeping Beauty
1991  The Restaurant of Many Orders
2003  Winter Days
2005  The Book of the Dead
2014  The Exquisite Short Films of Kihachiro Kawamoto

Writer:
1968  Breaking of Branches is Forbidden
1970  Anthropo-Cynical Farce
1972  The Demon
1973  The Trip
1974  A Poet's Life
1976  Dojoji Temple
1979  House of Flames
1981  Rennyo and His Mother
1988  Self Portrait
1988  To Shoot Without Shooting
1989  Animated Self-Portraits
1990  Briar-Rose or the Sleeping Beauty
1991  The Restaurant of Many Orders
2003  Winter Days
2005  The Book of the Dead
2014  The Exquisite Short Films of Kihachiro Kawamoto

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TV Production

Art Direction:
1993  Historical Puppet Spectacle: The Tale of the Heike

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