Known For
Directing
Born
Mar 25, 1932
Died
Apr 12, 2017
Place of Birth
Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
Credits
53 titles
Toshio Matsumoto
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
The Devil In Mary
Thanks
Discovery of Image – The Era of Toshio Matsumoto
KIKAIDE MIRUKOTO = Eye Machine / To See by Chance –The Pioneers of Japanese Video Arts–
Toro Axe Part 3: All Things Change
Director
Filming the Unfilmable: An Interview with Toshio Matsumoto
self
Under the Skin
Himself
Dissimulation
Director
Old/New
Director
Dogra Magra
Director
Engram
1986 Summer
Director
EE Control
Director
Sway
Director
Wave
Director
Vibration
Director
Delay Exposure
Director
Shift
Director
Relation
Director
Connection
Director
Ki or Breathing
Director
Kimoto
Director
White Hole
Director
Enigma: Nazo
Director
The War of the 16 Year Olds
Director
Atman
Director
A Girl
Director
Everything Visible Is Empty
Director
Phantom
Director
Murder Catalogue
Director
Fly
Director
Andy Warhol: Re-Reproduction
Director
Mona Lisa
Director
Expansion
Director
Autonomy
Director
Metastasis
Director
Demons
Director
Space Projection Ako
Director
Funeral Parade of Roses
Screenplay
Ecstasis
Director
For My Crushed Right Eye
Director
Magnetic Scramble
Director
Mothers
Director
Nippon Express Carries the Olympics to Tokyo
Co-Director
Nichiray a la carte
Script
The Song of Stone
Director
I'm Nylon
Director
The Weavers of Nishijin
Director
The Catch
Screenplay
Record of A Long White Line
Director
Security Treaty
Writer