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Toshio Matsumoto

Known For
Directing

Known Credits
5

Gender
Male

Birthday
March 25, 1932 (94 years old)

Place of Birth
Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

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

Crew

2018The Devil In Mary...Thanks
1963Nichiray a la carte...Script

Directing

2012Toro Axe Part 3: All Things Change...Director
1992Dissimulation...Director
1990Old/New...Director
1988Dogra Magra...Director
1987Engram...Director
19861986 Summer...Director
1985Sway...Director
1985EE Control...Director
1984Wave...Director
1984Delay Exposure...Director
1984Vibration...Director
1982Shift...Director
1982Relation...Director
1981Connection...Director
1980Ki or Breathing...Director
1980Kimoto...Director
1979White Hole...Director
1978Enigma: Nazo...Director
1976The War of the 16 Year Olds...Director
1975Atman...Director
1975A Girl...Director
1975Murder Catalogue...Director
1975Phantom...Director
1975Everything Visible Is Empty...Director
1974Fly...Director
1974Andy Warhol: Re-Reproduction...Director
1973Mona Lisa...Director
1973Expansion...Director
1972Autonomy...Director
1971Metastasis...Director
1971Demons...Director
1970Space Projection Ako...Director
1969Funeral Parade of Roses...Director
1969Ecstasis...Director
1968For My Crushed Right Eye...Director
1968Magnetic Scramble...Director
1967Mothers...Director
1964Nippon Express Carries the Olympics to Tokyo...Co-Director
1963The Song of Stone...Director
1962I'm Nylon...Director
1961The Weavers of Nishijin...Director
1960Record of A Long White Line...Director
1959Security Treaty...Director
1959300 Ton Trailer...Director
1957Caisson...Director
1955Silver Wheel...Director

Writing

1988Dogra Magra...Screenplay
1976The War of the 16 Year Olds...Screenplay
1971Demons...Screenplay
1969Funeral Parade of Roses...Screenplay
1961The Weavers of Nishijin...Screenplay
1961The Catch...Screenplay
1959Security Treaty...Writer
1955Silver Wheel...Screenplay

Editing

1975Atman...Editor

Acting

2017Discovery of Image – The Era of Toshio Matsumotoas
2013KIKAIDE MIRUKOTO = Eye Machine / To See by Chance –The Pioneers of Japanese Video Arts–as
2003Filming the Unfilmable: An Interview with Toshio Matsumotoas self
2002Under the Skinas Himself
1987Engramas