Kihachiro Kawamoto
Age: 85 | From: Tokyo, Japan
Person Details
Birthday: 1925-01-11 01:52:55
Death: 2010-08-23 01:52:55
Aliases: No known aliases
Gender: N/A
Place of birth: Tokyo, Japan
Homepage: http://www.sakuraeiga.com/kihachiro/index2.htm
Movie Involvements: 27
TV Involvements: 0
Most Famous Work
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-language Farce anthropo-cynique. (Wikipedia)
Most Famous Work
Winter Days
(2003) Writer
Animated Self-Portraits
(1989) Writer
The Book of the Dead
(2005) Director
Rennyo and His Mother
(1981) Animation
The Restaurant of Many Orders
(1993) Director
The Demon
(1972) Screenplay
Dojoji Temple
(1976) Screenplay
To Shoot Without Shooting
(1988) WriterActing
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Directing
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| 2005 | Director | |
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| Series Director | ||
| 1993 | Director | |
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| Director | ||
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| 1968 | Director | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Writing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Writer | |
| 1989 | Writer | |
| 1988 | Writer | |
| 1979 | Screenplay | |
| 1976 | Screenplay | |
| 1974 | Screenplay | |
| 1972 | Screenplay | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Visual Effects
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1981 | Animation | |
| 1979 | Animation | |
| 1972 | Animation | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Production
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1972 | Producer | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |