Directed credits
12
Active
Regular directing credits.
Director
Kihachiro Kawamoto
Directing
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Directed movies: 12Directed series: 0All crew credits: 16
TMDB ID: 233545
IMDb ID: nm1680531
Known for: Directing
Born: January 11, 1925
Died: August 23, 2010
Age: 85
Place of birth: Tokyo, Japan
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1968 - 2014
Years active: 47
Average TMDB rating: 6.37
Wikidata: Q997647
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Director (12)Writer (2)Art Direction (1)Screenplay (1)
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)
Movies
Directed Movies
Movies directed by Kihachiro Kawamoto.
The Exquisite Short Films of Kihachiro Kawamoto
Director
2014 Movie
6.2
The Book of the Dead
Director
2005 Movie
5.9
Winter Days
Director
2003 Movie
6.3
The Restaurant of Many Orders
Director
1991 Movie
6.2
Briar-Rose or the Sleeping Beauty
Director
1990 Movie
5.4
Self Portrait
Director
1988 Movie
Rennyo and His Mother
Director
1981 Movie
5.9
House of Flames
Director
1979 Movie
6.4
Dojoji Temple
Director
1976 Movie
6.8
A Poet's Life
Director
1974 Movie
5.8
The Trip
Director
1973 Movie
6.0
The Breaking of Branches Is Forbidden
Director
1968 Movie
Movies
Most Popular Movies
Most viewed movie titles linked with Kihachiro Kawamoto.
Rennyo and His Mother
Director
1981 Movie
5.9
Winter Days
Director
2003 Movie
6.2
The Book of the Dead
Director
2005 Movie
5.7
Animated Self-Portraits
Writer
1989 Movie
6.4
Dojoji Temple
Director
1976 Movie
6.8
A Poet's Life
Director
1974 Movie
6.2
Briar-Rose or the Sleeping Beauty
Director
1990 Movie
5.9
House of Flames
Director
1979 Movie
7.4
To Shoot Without Shooting
Writer
1988 Movie
6.0
The Breaking of Branches Is Forbidden
Director
1968 Movie
6.3
The Restaurant of Many Orders
Director
1991 Movie
6.4
The Demon
Screenplay
1972 Movie
Series
Most Popular Series
Most viewed series linked with Kihachiro Kawamoto.
Movies
Other Crew Work in Movies
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Series
Other Crew Work in Series
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