Kihachirō Kawamoto

Nihongo|Kihachirō Kawamoto|川本喜八郎|Kawamoto Kihachirō, born in 1925, is a Japanese animator and maker of stop motion animation films and puppets. Previously an illustrator and doll maker, he has collaborated with Tadasu Iizawa and trained under Tadahito Mochinaga and, later, Jiří Trnka. His most famous creations in his native Japan are the puppets he designed and made for a long-running TV series adaptation of the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms"; internationally he is better known for his own short films. Most of these are model animation; "Tabi" and "Shijin no Shōgai" are cutout animation and the French-language "Farce anthropo-cynique" is mixed media.

Filmography

hort films

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* "Anthropo-Cynical Farce" ("Farce anthropo-cynique", 1970, 8 min., from a story by Riichi Yokomitsu)
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* Tabi (Travel, 1973, 12 min.)
* Shijin no Shōgai (A Poet's Life, 1974, 19 min., from a story by Kōbō Abe)
* Dōjōji (Dōjōji Temple, 1976, 19 min.)
* Kataku (House of Flame, 1979, 19 min.)
* Self-Portrait (1988, 1 min.)
* Fusha no Sha (To Shoot without Shooting, 1988, 25 min.)
* [cite web |url=http://www.geneon-ent.co.jp/anime/NAA/contents/hp0006/index00060000.html |title=Kawamoto Kihachirô Sakuhinshû |accessdate=2008-09-18 |work=New Animation Animation |publisher=Geneon Entertainment |date=2007]
* Hisakata no Amefutakami (Amefutakami, in the Sky, 2006, 14 min.)

Feature films

* Rennyo to Sono Haha (Rennyo and His Mother, 1981, 92 min.)
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DVD releases

hort films

"Winter Days"

See "Winter Days".

"The Book of the Dead"

External links

* [http://www.midnighteye.com/interviews/kihachiro_kawamoto.shtml Interview] with Kihachirō Kawamoto
* [http://www.watershed.co.uk/kawamoto Kawamoto: The Puppet Master] , a touring season in the UK