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Toshio Matsumoto

Toshio Matsumoto

Director · 1932–2017 · Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

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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.

Directed 44

2010s

  1. 2012

    Toro Axe Part 3: All Things Change

    Director

1990s

  1. 1992

    Dissimulation

    Director

  2. 1990

    Old/New

    Director

1980s

  1. 1988

    Dogra Magra

    Director

    66
  2. 1987

    Engram

    Director

  3. 1986

    1986 Summer

    Director

  4. 1985

    Sway

    Director

  5. EE Control

    Director

  6. 1984

    Wave

    Director

  7. Delay Exposure

    Director

  8. Vibration

    Director

  9. 1982

    Shift

    Director

  10. Relation

    Director

  11. 1981

    Connection

    Director

  12. 1980

    Ki or Breathing

    Director

  13. Kimoto

    Director

1970s

  1. 1979

    White Hole

    Director

  2. 1978

    Enigma: Nazo

    Director

  3. 1976

    The War of the 16 Year Olds

    Director

  4. 1975

    Atman

    Director

  5. A Girl

    Director

  6. Phantom

    Director

  7. Everything Visible Is Empty

    Director

  8. Murder Catalogue

    Director

  9. 1974

    Fly

    Director

  10. 1973

    Mona Lisa

    Director

  11. Expansion

    Director

  12. 1972

    Autonomy

    Director

  13. 1971

    Metastasis

    Director

  14. Demons

    Director

    78
  15. 1970

    Space Projection Ako

    Director

1960s

  1. 1969

    Funeral Parade of Roses

    Director

  2. Ecstasis

    Director

  3. 1968

    For My Crushed Right Eye

    Director

  4. 1967

    Mothers

    Director

  5. 1964

    Nippon Express Carries the Olympics to Tokyo

    Co-Director

  6. 1963

    The Song of Stone

    Director

  7. 1962

    I'm Nylon

    Director

  8. 1961

    The Weavers of Nishijin

    Director

  9. 1960

    Record of A Long White Line

    Director

1950s

  1. 1959

    Security Treaty

    Director

  2. 300 Ton Trailer

    Director

  3. 1957

    Caisson

    Director

  4. 1955

    Silver Wheel

    Director

Wrote 8

1970s

  1. 1976

    The War of the 16 Year Olds

    Screenplay

  2. 1971

    Demons

    Screenplay

    78

1960s

  1. 1969

    Funeral Parade of Roses

    Screenplay

  2. 1961

    The Weavers of Nishijin

    Screenplay

  3. The Catch

    Screenplay

    67

1950s

  1. 1959

    Security Treaty

    Writer

  2. 1955

    Silver Wheel

    Screenplay

Acted in 3

2010s

  1. 2017

    Discovery of Image – The Era of Toshio Matsumoto

    Movie

  2. 2013

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

    Movie

1980s

  1. 1987

    Engram

    Movie

Edited 1

1970s

  1. 1975

    Atman

    Editor

Appearances1

2000s

  1. 2002

    Under the Skin

    Himself

Thanked in the credits1

2010s

  1. 2018

    The Devil In Mary

    Thanks