*anese film director and video artist (1932–2017)For the *anese dancer, see Toshio Matsumoto (dancer).

Toshio Matsumoto (松本 俊夫, Matsumoto Toshio) (25 March 1932 – 12 April 2017) was a *anese film director and video artist.

Contents

• 1 Biography
• 2 Filmography
  • 2.1 Feature films
  • 2.2 Experimental and do*entary short films
  • 2.3 Other works
• 3 Bibliography
• 4 References
• 5 External links

Biography

Matsumoto was born in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, *an and graduated from Tokyo University in 1955. His first short was Ginrin, which he made in 1955. His most famous film is Funeral Parade of Roses (Bara no soretsu). The film was loosely inspired by Oedipus Rex, featuring a transves*e (portrayed by Peter) trying to move up in the world of Tokyo Hostess clubs.

Matsumoto published many books of photography and was a professor and dean of Arts at the Kyoto University of Art and Design. There, he taught experimental filmmaker Takashi Ito. He was also president of the *an Society of Image Arts and Sciences. In the early 1980s he taught at the Kyushu Ins*ute of Art and Design (Kyushu Geijutsu Koka Daigaku).

He lived in Tokyo until his death on 12 April 2017.

Filmography

Feature films

Experimental and do*entary short films

Other works

Bibliography

• Matsumoto, Toshio, Eizo no hakken (1963)
• Matsumoto, Toshio (2012). "A Theory of Avant-Garde Do*entary". Cinema Journal. 51 (4): 148–154. doi:10.1353/cj.2012.0099. Retrieved 19 December 2014.

References

External links

• Toshio Matsumoto at IMDb
• Interview with Toshio Matsumoto - Do*entary Box (Interviewer: Aaron Gerow)