Toshio Matsumoto (Director)

Reviews of movies from director Toshio Matsumoto

Looking for reviews of films directed by Toshio Matsumoto? Cinafilm has a total of 175 reviews across 2 movies directed by Toshio Matsumoto.

Movies from this director have generally received positive reviews and hold an average rating of 72%.

Funeral Parade of Roses is Toshio Matsumoto's highest rated movie, with a score of 80% based on 32 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Toshio Matsumoto is Mona Lisa, with a score of 65% based on 143 reviews.

Director Biography

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 transsexual (portrayed by Peter) trying to move up in the world of the Japanese gay bars.

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.

Toshio Matsumoto has directed films starring Akira Hanaue, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Hōsei Komatsu and Shinnosuke Ikehata.