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Kihachirō Kawamoto 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.
Born
Sunday, 11 January 1925
Died
Monday, 23 August 2010
Director Filmography
Title | Year |
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The Book of the Dead | 2005 |
Winter Days | 2003 |
A Well-Ordered Restaurant | 1991 |
Briar-Rose or The Sleeping Beauty | 1990 |
Animated Self-Portraits | 1989 |
To Shoot Without Shooting | 1988 |
House of Flames | 1979 |
Dojoji Temple | 1976 |
A Poet's Life | 1974 |
The Trip | 1973 |
Anthropo-Cynical Farce | 1970 |
Producer Filmography
Title | Year |
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A Well-Ordered Restaurant | 1991 |
Dojoji Temple | 1976 |
A Poet's Life | 1974 |
The Trip | 1973 |