Kihachiro Kawamoto

KIHACHIRO KAWAMORO

Photo by Akiko Suzuki

1952-56 Worked as a puppet maker for animated puppet films, such as "Little Black Sambo", "Kobutori", "A Magic Drum" etc. (35mm, approximately 12min. )
1957 Worked as an animator, puppet maker and assistant director at an animated puppet film, "The History of Beer", 35mm, colored, 11min.)
1959-62 Established with my friends a company, which made commercial ad advertising animated puppet films for TV, and produced many animated puppet films.
1962 Quit the company.
1963 Studied at the studio in Prague, Czechoslovakia under Mr. Jiri Trunka.
1965-66 Began to work as a free-lanced artist and produced animated puppet films for TV program.
1968 Produced my own animated puppet film, "Hanaori/ Breaking Branches is Forbidden" (16mm, color, 14min.) Won Silver Prize at the Mamaia Festival.
1970 Produced my own puppet animation film "Kenjugiga/ Anthropocynical Farce" (35mm, 8 min.)
1972 Produced own puppet animation film "Oni/ The Demon", (35mm, color, 8min.) Won Prize at the Mainichi film contest in Japan, and Special Award at The Melbourne Festival 1973, and the work was mentioned at the Annecy Festival.
1973 Produced my own cut-out animation film "Tabi/ The Travel" (35mm, color, 12min.)
1974 Produced my own cut-out animation film "Shijin no Shogai/ A poet's Life" (35mm, color 19min.) Won the Prize at The Mainichi Film Contest in Japan
1976 Produced my own puppet animation film "Dojoji/Dojoji Temple" (35mm, color, 19min.) Won the Prize at the Mainichi Film Contest in Japan '77.