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Toshio Matsumoto

Name in Native Language: "松本俊夫" (Japanese/JA)
Film Director / Actor / Screenwriter / Television Producer / Professor | * 03/25/1932 († 85, 04/12/2017) | Nagoya, Aichi (Japan)
Toshio Matsumoto (松本 俊夫, Matsumoto Toshio) (25 March 1932 – 12 April 2017) was a Japanese film director and video artist. ()

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.

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Most frequent genres for this person: Documentaries | Horror | Animation

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Movies with Toshio Matsumoto as Actor(2)

as himself2002 Under the Skin
1987 Engram

Movies with Toshio Matsumoto as Crew(37)

Directing/Director2018 1986 Summer
Directing/Director1988 Dogra Magra
Writing/Screenplay1988 Dogra Magra
Directing/Director1987 Engram
Directing/Director1985 Sway
Directing/Director1984 Delay Exposure
Directing/Director1982 Relation
Directing/Director1982 Shift
Directing/Director1981 Connection
Directing/Director1980 Ki or Breathing
Directing/Director1979 White Hole
Directing/Director1978 Enigma: Nazo
Directing/Director1976 The War of the 16 Year Olds
Writing/Writer1976 The War of the 16 Year Olds
Directing/Director1975 Phantom
Directing/Director1975 Atman
Editing/Editor1975 Atman
Directing/Director1975 Everything Visible Is Empty
Directing/Director1974 Andy Warhol: Re-Reproduction
Directing/Director1973 Mona Lisa
Directing/Director1972 Expansion
Directing/Director1971 Metastasis
Directing/Director1971 Demons
Writing/Screenplay1971 Demons
Directing/Director1969 Ecstasis
Directing/Director1969 Funeral Parade of Roses
Writing/Screenplay1969 Funeral Parade of Roses
Directing/Director1969 For My Crushed Right Eye
Directing/Director1968 Magnetic Scramble
Directing/Director1967 Mothers
Directing/Director1963 The Song of Stone
Directing/Director1961 The Weavers of Nishijin
Writing/Screenplay1961 The Weavers of Nishijin
Writing/Screenplay1961 The Catch
Directing/Director1959 300 Ton Trailer
Directing/Director1955 Silver Wheel

Full Name: Toshio Matsumoto
Citizenship: Japan
Born: Friday, 03/25 1932 (March) in Nagoya, Aichi (Japan)
Died: Wednesday, 04/12 2017 (April) in Tokyo (aged: 85)
Zodiac sign: Aries (Chinese zodiac sign: Monkey)
Languages: Japanese (JA)
Educated at: University of Tokyo
Employer: Kyoto University of the Arts and Design, Kyushu Institute of Design, Nihon University College of Art
Other names for Toshio Matsumoto (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"松本 俊夫"
"마츠모토 토시오"
"まつもと としお" (Kana/Japanese)
Toshio Matsumoto frequently works together with these people:
Tatsuo Suzuki (4x, Crew)
Toshi Ichiyanagi (4x, Crew)
Jôji Yuasa (4x, Crew)
Toshie Iwasa (3x, Crew)
Hideo Kanze (2x, Actor)
Itsuro Shimoda (2x, Cast)
Yoshio Unno (2x, Crew)
Mikio Katayama (2x, Crew)
Mitsuru Kudo (2x, Crew)
Shinkichi Noda (2x, Crew)
WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:112108, Added: 06/27/2018, Last updated: 03/23/2024