Kihachirou Kawamoto

Kihachirou Kawamoto was a Japanese puppet designer, director, writer, and animator known for independently made stop-motion films. He trained under Tadahito Mochinaga and Jiří Trnka and became especially known in Japan for puppets created for a television adaptation of Romance of the Three Kingdoms. His directing credits include Winter Days, Kataku, Doujouji, Oni, and A Poet's Life.