Kihachiro Kawamoto

A sheltered aristocratic woman in feudal Japan, bored and unfamiliar with the world outside her estate, passes the time copying a special ...

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 ...

A short film based on a story by Japanese writer Kenji Miyazawa in which two young British hunters get lost in the woods and discover a strange ...

On her fifteenth birthday the princess finds a diary written by her mother when she was young. The diary tells of the Queen’s secret, early ...

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

Ji Chang wants to be the best archer in the world. He seeks out a master who is able, at a distance, to shoot a single leaf off a tree. Over ...

Kawamoto’s animated self-portrait.

Rennyo was the key figure responsible for the restoration of Shin Buddhism in Japan, in particular the Honganji lineage that had a slump in its ...