Forum - View topicNEWS: Puppet Master/Animator Kihachiro Kawamoto Passes Away
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chefneer
Aria Company
Posts: 1686 Location: Fort Worth, Texas |
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What's with all the deaths recently? Too many...too many.
A couple of these guys were 60+ which makes me curious - what's the average age of Japanese animation directors these days? I would hope that the ratio of younger to older is a healthy one, but with all the deaths of top directors recently I wonder. This can only be described as a sad end to a sad week. |
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Sariachan
Posts: 1494 Location: Italy |
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Thanks for the suggestions, I'll check them out. I like experimental animation but I didn't know Kawamoto, I'm sad that he passed away not the less, though. |
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mdo7
Posts: 6269 Location: Katy, Texas, USA |
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After hearing about this along with Kon and Yamauchi. How can this get any worse?
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leongsh
Posts: 181 |
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Please do not tempt the situation. I'm having a hard time with Kon's death and before one can recover, then it's was Yamauchi's turn. Now, another respected personage of Kawamoto? While I'm not familiar with his works, it's decimating the already thin ranks of animators in Japan. Enough... please stop... whoever/whatever. This week has been terrible. |
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Gyt Kaliba
Posts: 712 Location: Arkansas |
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...DAMN you 'Rule of three'! Seriously, this is just sucky.
I can honestly say I've never heard of the man, but still, we're losing too many too fast. |
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Lapin noir
Posts: 127 Location: United Kingdom |
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The obituaries that have appeared at http://angura.org/post/1020181527/kihachiro-kawamoto-passes http://jaspersharp.com/blog/news/2010/08/mourning-two-great-animators and http://nishikataeiga.blogspot.com/2010/08/passing-of-puppet-master-kihachiro.html are all different and worth reading, particularly the Nishikata one, wether you're familiar with Kawamoto or not. If you're not, you should be; in Japan he's up there with Ghibli, Tezuka, YOKOYAMA Ryuichi and MIZUKI Shigeru in having this museum of his puppets:
Well, OK, maybe not Mizuki, whom has seemingly much of his home city dedicated to his characters, and it definitely seems to be more on account of the live action series than his animation but it shows that his style of puppet design must have had huge cultural clout during the years that these series ran, and continues to do so. |
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