- Kihachirō Kawamoto
Nihongo|Kihachirō Kawamoto|川本喜八郎|Kawamoto Kihachirō, born in 1925, is a Japanese
animator and maker ofstop motion animation films and puppets. Previously anillustrator anddoll maker, he has collaborated withTadasu Iizawa and trained underTadahito 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 aremodel animation ; "Tabi" and "Shijin no Shōgai" arecutout animation and the French-language "Farce anthropo-cynique" ismixed media .Filmography
hort films
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* "Anthropo-Cynical Farce" ("Farce anthropo-cynique", 1970, 8 min., from a story byRiichi 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
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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
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