Kihachiro Kawamoto
Personal Info
Know For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1925-01-11 (85 years old)
Deathday
2010-08-23
Place of Birth
Tokyo, Japan
Also known As
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Kihachiro Kawamoto
Biography
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-la...
Production
2005
as Director
1974
as Director
1974
as Screenplay
2003
as Director
1972
as Director
1972
as Screenplay
1979
as Director
1979
as Screenplay
1976
as Director
1976
as Screenplay
1991
as Director
1990
as Director
1972
as Animation
1972
as Producer
1979
as Animation
1973
as Director
1970
as Director
1968
as Director
1988
as Director
1981
as Director
2014
1988
as Director
1988
as Writer
1989
as Writer
1989
as Director
1981
as Animation
2003
as Series Director
2003
as Writer
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