Toshio Matsumoto

Known for

Directing

Born

Mar 25, 1932

Died

Apr 12, 2017

From

Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Toshio Matsumoto (松本 俊夫, Matsumoto Toshio; March 25, 1932 – April 12, 2017) was a Japanese film director, a pioneer of avant-garde experimental films, multimedia, and video in his homeland and abroad. Born in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan and a graduate from Tokyo University in 1955, his first short was Ginrin, which he made in 1955, however his most famous work is 1969's wildly experimental Funeral Parade of Roses (also known as Bara no soretsu). A retelling of Oedipus Rex, a trans person (portrayed by Pîta) tries to move up in the world of the Japanese hostess clubs. Funeral Parade of Roses heavily influenced Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange (1971). Matsumoto published many books of photography and art and was a professor and dean of Arts at the Kyoto University of Art and Design. He was also the President of the Japan Society of Image Arts and Sciences.

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Credits

Engram

19876.2out of 10

Under the Skin

20021.0out of 10

KIKAIDE MIRUKOTO = Eye Machine / To See by Chance –The Pioneers of Japanese Video Arts–

20130.0out of 10

Filming the Unfilmable: An Interview with Toshio Matsumoto

20030.0out of 10

Discovery of Image – The Era of Toshio Matsumoto

20170.0out of 10

Funeral Parade of Roses

19697.5out of 10

Dogra Magra

19886.7out of 10

Kimoto

19800.0out of 10

Ecstasis

19697.5out of 10

For My Crushed Right Eye

19687.5out of 10

Demons

19717.7out of 10

Shift

19827.3out of 10

The War of the 16 Year Olds

19766.8out of 10

Atman

19756.6out of 10

White Hole

19796.3out of 10

Metastasis

19715.6out of 10

Magnetic Scramble

19680.0out of 10

Old/New

19900.0out of 10