Kihachiro Kawamoto

Born: Jan 11, 1925, 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 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)

Real Name	Kihachiro Kawamoto
Date of Birth	Jan 11, 1925
Place of Birth	Tokyo, Japan
Age	85
Death Day	2010-08-23

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The Book of the Dead

Winter Days

The Restaurant of Many Orders

Briar-Rose or the Sleeping Beauty

Animated Self-Portraits

To Shoot Without Shooting

Rennyo and His Mother

House of Flames

Dojoji Temple

A Poet's Life

Anthropo-Cynical Farce

Breaking of Branches is Forbidden

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