1991Nominee
Best Director
The Restaurant of Many Orders
Kihachiro Kawamoto
Director · Producer · Writer
Tokyo, Japan
January 11, 1925
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)
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
2003Nominee
Best Director
Winter Days
1990Nominee
Best Director
Briar-Rose or the Sleeping Beauty
Career Highlights
1972Highlight
Best Writing
The Demon
2005Highlight
Best Director
The Book of the Dead
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Winter Days