Toshio Matsumoto
Toshio Matsumoto was a Japanese film director and video artist.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. His most famous film is Funeral Parade of Roses. The film was loosely inspired by Oedipus Rex, featuring a transvestite 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. He was also president of the Japan Society of Image Arts and Sciences. In the early 1980s he taught at the Kyushu Institute of Art and Design.
He lived in Tokyo until his death on April 12, 2017.Filmography
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