Toshio Matsumoto
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.
Funeral Parade of Roses
(Director)
Funeral Parade of Roses
(Screenplay)
Dogra Magra
(Director)
Kimoto
(Director)
Ecstasis
(Director)
For My Crushed Right Eye
(Director)
Demons
(Director)
Shift
(Director)
The War of the 16 Year Olds
(Director)
Atman
(Director)
White Hole
(Director)
Metastasis
(Director)
Magnetic Scramble
(Director)
Old/New
(Director)
Enigma: Nazo
(Director)
Ki or Breathing
(Director)
Mona Lisa
(Director)
Andy Warhol: Re-Reproduction
(Director)
Autonomy
(Director)
I'm Nylon
(Director)
Wave
(Director)
A Girl
(Director)
Dissimulation
(Director)
Fly
(Director)
Nichiray a la carte
(Script)
Silver Wheel
(Director)
Phantom
(Director)
The Weavers of Nishijin
(Director)
The Song of Stone
(Director)
Mothers
(Director)
Everything Visible Is Empty
(Director)
Connection
(Director)
The Weavers of Nishijin
(Screenplay)
Engram
(Director)
Relation
(Director)
Expansion
(Director)
Dogra Magra
(Screenplay)
Sway
(Director)
Space Projection Ako
(Director)
Security Treaty
(Director)
Security Treaty
(Writer)
Record of A Long White Line
(Director)
300 Ton Trailer
(Director)
The Catch
(Screenplay)
The Devil In Mary
(Thanks)
1986 Summer
(Director)
Atman
(Editor)
Delay Exposure
(Director)
Vibration
(Director)
Demons
(Screenplay)
EE Control
(Director)
Toro Axe Part 3: All Things Change
(Director)
Murder Catalogue
(Director)
Caisson
(Director)
Nippon Express Carries the Olympics to Tokyo
(Director)
The War of the 16 Year Olds
(Screenplay)