Kihachirō Kawamoto

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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; in the west 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.

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[edit] Filmography

[edit] Short films

  • Breaking of Branches is Forbidden (花折り Hana-Ori?, 1968, 14 min.)
  • Anthropo-Cynical Farce (Farce anthropo-cynique, 1970, 8 min., from a story by Riichi Yokomitsu)
  • The Demon (鬼 Oni?, 1972, 8 min.)
  • 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.)
  • Ibara-Hime matawa Nemuri-Hime (Briar-Rose or The Sleeping Beauty, 1990, 22 min., from a story by Kyōko Kishida)
  • Hisakata no Amefutakami (Amefutakami, in the Sky, 2006, 14 min.)

[edit] Feature films

[edit] DVD releases

[edit] Short films

Title Format Region Publisher Series Date Catalogue # Subtitles
Kihachiro Kawamoto Film Works (川本喜八郎作品集 Kawamoto Kihachirō Sakuhinshū?) NTSC All Pioneer Corporation New Animation Animation 2002.7.10 PIBA-3032 English, Japanese
Kihachiro Kawamoto Film Works (川本喜八郎作品集 Kawamoto Kihachirō Sakuhinshū?) NTSC All Geneon New Animation Animation 2007.1.25 GNBA-3034 English, Japanese
The Exquisite Short Films of Kihachiro Kawamoto NTSC 1 Kino International The KimStim Collection 2008.4.22 KV623DVD English

[edit] Winter Days

See Winter Days.

[edit] The Book of the Dead

Title Format Region Publisher Series Date Catalogue # Subtitles
The Book of the Dead (死者の書 Shisha no Sho?) NTSC 2 Geneon New Animation Animation 2007.10.24 GNBA-3062 None
The Book of the Dead NTSC 1 Kino International The KimStim Collection 2008.4.22 KV613DVD English

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