Kihachiro Kawamoto Dead at 85
Acclaimed Japanese puppeteer and animator Kihachiro Kawamoto passed away due to pneumonia on Monday, August 23. He was 85. Kawamoto may be best known to international animation fans as the director of the 2005 puppet animation movie The Book of the Dead (Shisha no Sho). Kawamoto also directed the 2003 anthology of esoteric & experimental Japanese animation Winter Days (Fuyu no hi). Kawamoto started his career in animation with Toho in 1946.
Source: Anime News Network
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Crap, so the rule of 3 also applies to the artists working in the animation bussines in Japan O_o a shame, I had seen some of the works of this guy and he was talented. He tried to convey a political message in some o his shorts, he worked a lot with russian stop motion animators.
Thanks to Rei Hiroe wo wishing dead for people overseas ¬___¬U