Toshio Matsumoto

Toshio Matsumoto

nihongo|Toshio Matsumoto|松本 俊夫|Matsumoto Toshio (born March 25 1932) is a Japanese film director and video artist. He 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 "Funeral Parade of Roses" (aka "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 transsexual (portrayed by Peter (actor)) trying to move up in the world of the Japanese gay bars.

Matsumoto has published many books of photography and is currently a professor and dean of Arts at the Kyoto University of Art and Design. He is also the President of the Japan Society of Image Arts and Sciences.

Filmography

Feature films

Bibliography

* "Eizo no hakken" (1963)

External links

*imdb name|id=0559564|name=Toshio Matsumoto
* [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1771264861295478258&sourceid=docidfeed&hl=en Google Video of "For the Damaged Right Eye"]

ources

* [http://www.greylodge.org/gpc/?p=701 Experimental Video Downloads & Interview]
* [http://www.city.yamagata.yamagata.jp/yidff/docbox/9/box9-2-e.html An interview with Toshio Matsumoto]
* [http://www.mastersofcinema.org Masters of Cinema]


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