Kihachiro Kawamoto

Kihachiro Kawamoto

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)

  • Title: Kihachiro Kawamoto
  • Popularity: 1.259
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1925-01-11
  • Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
  • Homepage: http://www.sakuraeiga.com/kihachiro/index2.htm
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Kihachiro Kawamoto Movies

  • 2005
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    The Book of the Dead

    The Book of the Dead

    6.2 2005 HD

    A sheltered aristocratic woman in feudal Japan, bored and unfamiliar with the world outside her estate, passes the time copying a special Buddhist...

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  • 1974
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    A Poet's Life

    A Poet's Life

    6.8 1974 HD

    A cautionary tale about workers who are neglected, lose hope, and fade away while businessmen prosper by selling out to foreign countries. As the...

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  • 1974
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    A Poet's Life

    A Poet's Life

    6.8 1974 HD

    A cautionary tale about workers who are neglected, lose hope, and fade away while businessmen prosper by selling out to foreign countries. As the...

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  • 2003
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    Winter Days

    Winter Days

    5.706 2003 HD

    Winter Days is a 2003 animated film, directed by Kihachirō Kawamoto. It is based on one of the renku (collaborative linked poems) in the 1684...

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  • 1972
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    The Demon

    The Demon

    6.4 1972 HD

    Two brothers, who are both hunters and live with their mother, go to the mountains to set traps for deer. Suddenly, a demon grabs the younger...

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  • 1972
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    The Demon

    The Demon

    6.4 1972 HD

    Two brothers, who are both hunters and live with their mother, go to the mountains to set traps for deer. Suddenly, a demon grabs the younger...

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  • 1979
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    House of Flames

    House of Flames

    5.9 1979 HD

    Through puppets and animation, a traveler tells his story of walking through Settsu, coming to the town of Ikuta. He asks if someone can show him the...

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  • 1979
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    House of Flames

    House of Flames

    5.9 1979 HD

    Through puppets and animation, a traveler tells his story of walking through Settsu, coming to the town of Ikuta. He asks if someone can show him the...

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  • 1976
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    Dojoji Temple

    Dojoji Temple

    6.5 1976 HD

    A man who is on a pilgrimage spends the night with a woman. After they share a moment of passion, he runs away and she chases him.

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  • 1976
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    Dojoji Temple

    Dojoji Temple

    6.5 1976 HD

    A man who is on a pilgrimage spends the night with a woman. After they share a moment of passion, he runs away and she chases him.

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  • 1991
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    The Restaurant of Many Orders

    The Restaurant of Many Orders

    6.3 1991 HD

    A short film based on a story by Japanese writer Kenji Miyazawa in which two young British hunters get lost in the woods and discover a strange...

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  • 1990
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    Briar-Rose or the Sleeping Beauty

    Briar-Rose or the Sleeping Beauty

    6.182 1990 HD

    On her fifteenth birthday the princess finds a diary written by her mother when she was young. The diary tells of the Queen's secret, early love. The...

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  • 1972
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    The Demon

    The Demon

    6.4 1972 HD

    Two brothers, who are both hunters and live with their mother, go to the mountains to set traps for deer. Suddenly, a demon grabs the younger...

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  • 1972
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    The Demon

    The Demon

    6.4 1972 HD

    Two brothers, who are both hunters and live with their mother, go to the mountains to set traps for deer. Suddenly, a demon grabs the younger...

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  • 1979
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    House of Flames

    House of Flames

    5.9 1979 HD

    Through puppets and animation, a traveler tells his story of walking through Settsu, coming to the town of Ikuta. He asks if someone can show him the...

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  • 1973
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    The Trip

    The Trip

    5.8 1973 HD

    A woman taking a trip encounters a nightmarish landscape juxtaposed against scenes of classical beauty.

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  • 1970
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    Anthropo-Cynical Farce

    Anthropo-Cynical Farce

    6.2 1970 HD

    Dog racing is used as a metaphor for the futility of human existence.

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  • 1968
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    Breaking of Branches is Forbidden

    Breaking of Branches is Forbidden

    6 1968 HD

    The head monk orders a young acolyte to guard a beautiful cherry tree in the monastery garden while he goes out. But the older man underestimates his...

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  • 1988
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    Self Portrait

    Self Portrait

    5.3 1988 HD

    Kawamoto's animated self-portrait.

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  • 1981
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    Rennyo and His Mother

    Rennyo and His Mother

    1 1981 HD

    Rennyo was the key figure responsible for the restoration of Shin Buddhism in Japan, in particular the Honganji lineage that had a slump in its...

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  • 2014
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    The Exquisite Short Films of Kihachiro Kawamoto

    The Exquisite Short Films of Kihachiro Kawamoto

    1 2014 HD

    This collection of short films from stop-motion animator Kihachiro Kawamoto traces the arc of his career and the evolution of his craft across...

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  • 1988
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    To Shoot Without Shooting

    To Shoot Without Shooting

    7.4 1988 HD

    Ji Chang wants to be the best archer in the world. He seeks out a master who is able, at a distance, to shoot a single leaf off a tree. Over several...

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  • 1988
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    To Shoot Without Shooting

    To Shoot Without Shooting

    7.4 1988 HD

    Ji Chang wants to be the best archer in the world. He seeks out a master who is able, at a distance, to shoot a single leaf off a tree. Over several...

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  • 1989
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    Animated Self-Portraits

    Animated Self-Portraits

    5.733 1989 HD

    An animated film compiled by David Ehrlich consisting of 27 animators from different countries all explaining themselves through their animation.

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  • 1989
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    Animated Self-Portraits

    Animated Self-Portraits

    5.733 1989 HD

    An animated film compiled by David Ehrlich consisting of 27 animators from different countries all explaining themselves through their animation.

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  • 1981
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    Rennyo and His Mother

    Rennyo and His Mother

    1 1981 HD

    Rennyo was the key figure responsible for the restoration of Shin Buddhism in Japan, in particular the Honganji lineage that had a slump in its...

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  • 2003
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    Winter Days

    Winter Days

    5.706 2003 HD

    Winter Days is a 2003 animated film, directed by Kihachirō Kawamoto. It is based on one of the renku (collaborative linked poems) in the 1684...

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  • 2003
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    Winter Days

    Winter Days

    5.706 2003 HD

    Winter Days is a 2003 animated film, directed by Kihachirō Kawamoto. It is based on one of the renku (collaborative linked poems) in the 1684...

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  • 1970
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    10 1970 HD

    A stop-motion animated TV series based on the novel by Eiji Yoshikawa, featuring puppet art by Kihachirō Kawamoto. This is a historical picture...

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