This has been quite a mourning week for the industry as animator Shojuro Yamauchi, animator and director Satoshi Kon and the acclaimed puppeteer Kihachiro Kawamoto passed away.Yamauchi was best known for his work in the Movie 'Spirited Away', which won an Oscar.
Director Satoshi Kon, known for his participation in series that featured alternative realities and altered states of the conscience, was working in a project for Madhouse titled Yume-Miru Kikai (The Dreaming Machine) when he passed away on August 24th, at 6:20 am, due to pancreatic cancer at 46 years of age. Madhouse will still continue the project.
And acclaimed puppermaster Kihachiro Kawamoto passed away at 85 due to pneumonia. He was known to fans worldwide as the director of the movie Shisha no Sho (The Book of the Dead), which was a puppet animated feature that striked for its originality.
R.I.P