Name Toshio Matsumoto Role Film director | ||
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Movies Funeral Parade of Roses, Demons, For My Crushed Right Eye, The Catch, Dogra Magra Similar People Yoshio Tsuchiya, Nagisa Oshima, Shuji Terayama, Peter, Katsuo Nakamura | ||
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Toshio Matsumoto (松本 俊夫, Matsumoto Toshio) (March 25, 1932 – April 12, 2017) was a Japanese film director and video artist.
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Toshio Matsumoto - Phantom (1975)
Biography
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 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 transsexual (portrayed by Peter) trying to move up in the world of the Japanese gay bars.
Matsumoto has published many books of photography 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.
He lived in Tokyo until his death in April 12, 2017.