{"id":208,"date":"2010-03-26T14:40:33","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T14:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/?p=208"},"modified":"2010-10-26T11:57:03","modified_gmt":"2010-10-26T11:57:03","slug":"the-exquisite-short-films-of-kihachiro-kawamoto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/?p=208","title":{"rendered":"The exquisite short films of Kihachiro Kawamoto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DVD &#8211; The Exquisite Short Films of Kihachiro Kawamoto\u00c2\u00a0 (Kimstim, 2008, 99 mins, NTSC, subtitled)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_212\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-212\" style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/kihachiro.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-212\" title=\"kihachiro\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/kihachiro.jpg\" alt=\"Hunter from &quot;The Demon&quot;\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/kihachiro.jpg 320w, http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/kihachiro-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 85vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-212\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hunter: &quot;The Demon&quot;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Kawamoto has been making his stop-motion puppet animation films for half a century now.\u00c2\u00a0 They draw on ancient Japanese legends , Noh, Kabuki and Bunraku doll theatre, and 20th century short novels, to create art films with a uniquely Japanese poetic character.\u00c2\u00a0 Kawamoto learnt his skills at the legendary Kratky Studios in Prague under the mentorship of Czech animator Jiri Trnka.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 The results are quite different from the popular Japanese <em>anime<\/em> which uses cell (and latterly computer) animation and is influenced by <em>manga<\/em> comics and early American cartoon animation.<\/p>\n<p>The DVD contains seven short films varying in length from 8 to 19 minutes.\u00c2\u00a0 I might have seen one of them previously: &#8220;Dojoji Temple&#8221; in which a young monk\u00c2\u00a0 on a spiritual journey encounters a mysterious woman whose frenzied passions turn her into large white serpent.\u00c2\u00a0 The monk hides under the temple bell, but the serpent, wreathed in flame, wraps herself around it, and when the bell is lifted, only the monk&#8217;s charred corpse is left.\u00c2\u00a0 (and if you think this sounds weird, you should see the other short films on the DVD)<\/p>\n<p>An essential DVD if you are interested in animation as art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DVD &#8211; The Exquisite Short Films of Kihachiro Kawamoto\u00c2\u00a0 (Kimstim, 2008, 99 mins, NTSC, subtitled) Kawamoto has been making his stop-motion puppet animation films for half a century now.\u00c2\u00a0 They draw on ancient Japanese legends , Noh, Kabuki and Bunraku doll theatre, and 20th century short novels, to create art films with a uniquely Japanese &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/?p=208\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The exquisite short films of Kihachiro Kawamoto&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,2,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":513,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions\/513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}