Direction: Kihachirô Kawamoto

Direction Kihachirô Kawamoto

Plot Puppet animation film structured along a folk tale inspired narrative about a young Chinese archer's trials to reach the pinnacle of his field. After learning to shoot a marked willow...

Direction Kihachirô Kawamoto

Plot Through puppets and animation, a traveler tells his story of walking through Settsu, coming to the town of Ikuta. He asks if someone can show him the Seeker's Mound. Late...

Direction Kihachirô Kawamoto

Plot An elderly monk and his young eager acolyte travel along a road crowded with pilgrims toward a famous temple. As evening approaches they find lodging at a young widow’s; she...

Direction Kihachirô Kawamoto

Plot The Nara period in Japan: Buddhism has recently been imported from China and is all the rage amongst the nobility. IRATSUME, a young woman from a noble house, becomes obsessed...

Direction Kihachirô Kawamoto

Plot Two Brothers, who are both hunters and live with their mother, go to the mountains to set traps for deer. Suddenly, a demon grabs the younger brothers. The older brother...

Direction Kihachirô Kawamoto

Plot A woman taking a trip encounters a nightmarish landscape juxtaposed against scenes of classical beauty.

Direction Kihachirô Kawamoto

Plot An alternate retelling of the classic Sleeping Beauty fairy tale. The story begins in the same way as the original story but our young heroine instead of falling under the...

Direction Kihachirô Kawamoto · Mark Baker · Jacques Drouin · Co Hoedeman

Plot Winter Days is a 2003 animated film, directed by Kihachirō Kawamoto. It is based on one of the renku (collaborative linked poems) in the 1684 collection of the same name...

Direction Kihachirô Kawamoto

Plot A worker is fired from a factory for demanding a wage increase, while his mother, worn thin by poverty, is caught in her own spinning wheel and transformed into yarn....

Direction David Ehrlich · Jirí Barta · Sally Cruikshank · Borivoj Dovnikovic-Bordo

Plot An animated film compiled by David Ehrlich consisting of 27 animators from different countries all explaining themselves through their animation.

Direction Kihachirô Kawamoto

Plot A cautionary tale. A monk's acolyte follows his master back to the master's garden, where branches of beautiful blossoms grow. A sign forbids the breaking of the branches. The master...

Direction Kihachirô Kawamoto

Plot Dog racing is used as a metaphor for the futility of human existence.