Toshio Matsumoto

Known for DirectingBorn 1932-03-25Died 2017-04-12Nagoya, 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 movies, multimedia, and video in his homeland and abroad. Matsumoto was born in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan and graduated from Tokyo University in 1955. His first short was Ginrin, which he made in 1955, however his most famous film is 1969's wildly experimental Funeral Parade of Roses (also known as Bara no soretsu). Funeral Parade of Roses influenced Stanley Kubrick's film A Clockwork Orange heavily. The film was a retelling of Oedipus Rex, featuring a trans person (portrayed by Pîta) trying to move up in the world of the Japanese hostess clubs. 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Silver Wheel

Demons

Everything Visible Is Empty

The Weavers of Nishijin

Funeral Parade of Roses

Ecstasis

For My Crushed Right Eye

Shift

Ki or Breathing

Sway

Expansion

Enigma: Nazo

Dogra Magra

Relation

Atman

Connection

The Song of Stone

The Catch

The War of the 16 Year Olds

White Hole

Engram

Mothers

Phantom

Murder Catalogue

Andy Warhol: Re-Reproduction

Mona Lisa

Metastasis

EE Control

Under the Skin

The Devil In Mary

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

Filming the Unfilmable: An Interview with Toshio Matsumoto

Dissimulation

Old/New

1986 Summer

Wave

Delay Exposure

Vibration

Kimoto

A Girl

Fly

Autonomy

Space Projection Ako

Magnetic Scramble

Nippon Express Carries the Olympics to Tokyo

Nichiray a la carte