Stop-motion animator Kihachiro Kawamoto dies

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Jet_Jaguar
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Stop-motion animator Kihachiro Kawamoto dies

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More sad news from the world of Japanese animation:

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/20 ... CENSORED-away

Kihachiro Kawamoto -The Demon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wt8W-q-oABM

Farce Anthropo - Cynique : by Kihachiro Kawamoto

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYxRXHYobn0

Kihachiro Kawamoto - Self Portrait (1988)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CzlMu6z50s
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he will be missed. one of my professors worked with him on the Absolut Vodka ad he did. his films were amazing.
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indestructibleman wrote:he will be missed. one of my professors worked with him on the Absolut Vodka ad he did. his films were amazing.
I didn't know that he did one. Is it on YouTube?
"It doesn't matter whom you are paired against;
your opponent is always yourself."

-Nakamura (via Joe R. Lansdale's Mucho Mojo)
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