Toshio Matsumoto
Directing
1932-03-25 · 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.
Filmography
The Devil In Mary
2018 · Movie
Discovery of Image – The Era of Toshio Matsumoto
2017 · Movie
KIKAIDE MIRUKOTO = Eye Machine / To See by Chance –The Pioneers of Japanese Video Arts–
2013 · Movie
Toro Axe Part 3: All Things Change
2012 · Movie
Filming the Unfilmable: An Interview with Toshio Matsumoto
2003 · Movie
Under the Skin
2002 · Movie
Dissimulation
1992 · Movie
Old/New
1990 · Movie
Dogra Magra
1988 · Movie
Engram
1987 · Movie
1986 Summer
1986 · Movie
EE Control
1985 · Movie
Sway
1985 · Movie
Wave
1984 · Movie
Vibration
1984 · Movie
Delay Exposure
1984 · Movie
Shift
1982 · Movie
Relation
1982 · Movie
Connection
1981 · Movie
Ki or Breathing
1980 · Movie
Kimoto
1980 · Movie
White Hole
1979 · Movie
Enigma: Nazo
1978 · Movie
The War of the 16 Year Olds
1976 · Movie
Atman
1975 · Movie
A Girl
1975 · Movie
Everything Visible Is Empty
1975 · Movie
Phantom
1975 · Movie
Murder Catalogue
1975 · Movie
Fly
1974 · Movie
Andy Warhol: Re-Reproduction
1974 · Movie
Mona Lisa
1973 · Movie
Expansion
1973 · Movie
Autonomy
1972 · Movie
Metastasis
1971 · Movie
Demons
1971 · Movie
Space Projection Ako
1970 · Movie
Funeral Parade of Roses
1969 · Movie
Ecstasis
1969 · Movie
For My Crushed Right Eye
1968 · Movie
Magnetic Scramble
1968 · Movie
Mothers
1967 · Movie
Nippon Express Carries the Olympics to Tokyo
1964 · Movie
Nichiray a la carte
1963 · Movie
The Song of Stone
1963 · Movie
I'm Nylon
1962 · Movie
The Weavers of Nishijin
1961 · Movie
The Catch
1961 · Movie
Record of A Long White Line
1960 · Movie
Security Treaty
1959 · Movie
300 Ton Trailer
1959 · Movie
Caisson
1957 · Movie
Silver Wheel
1955 · Movie