Direction: Toshio Matsumoto

Direction Toshio Matsumoto

Cast Katsuo Nakamura · Yasuko Sanjo · Juro Kara · Masao Imafuku

Synopsis A stark, desperate tale of vengeance, Shura examines the plight of Gengobe (a Ronin), and his quest to right the wrongs done unto him. This is basically the whole plot in a nutshell, but this isn't any kind of action...

Direction Toshio Matsumoto

Cast Osamu Ogasawara · Shotari Akiyama · Kiyoshi Awazu · Emiko Azuma

Synopsis A gay son kills his mother and sleeps with his father in this Japanese version of the Oedipus legend.

Direction Toshio Matsumoto

Synopsis Through the use of what was at the time state-of-the-art video technology, Matsumoto decomposes a residential building in horizontal stripes, thus tearing down its balance and symmetry.

Direction Toshio Matsumoto

Synopsis This experimental short shows a masked girl with long silver hair wearing a kimono and sitting on a chair by a river side. The mask with two short horns, the Hannya, represents the female demon of jealousy and wrath and...

Direction Toshio Matsumoto

Cast Toshio Matsumoto

Synopsis Engram is a three-part piece revolving around a few good old ideas such as photos inside of photos, movies inside of movies, photos inside of movies, movies inside of photos, and (even) a film director inside a TV set.

Direction Toshio Matsumoto

Synopsis A static shot of the sky with moving clouds is subdivided into regular geometrical regions, which are then individually and rhythmically manipulated.

Direction Toshio Matsumoto

Synopsis A mesmerizing trip through the psychedelic vastness of space.

Direction Toshio Matsumoto

Cast Budhadeb Chaudhuri · Naka Fuyuki · Shizue Sakurai

Direction Toshio Matsumoto

Cast Andy Warhol

Direction Toshio Matsumoto

Cast Yôji Matsuda · Shijaku Katsura · Hideo Murota · Eri Misawa

Synopsis A man is confined to a mental institution after trying to murder his fiancee. Two doctors relate his problem to an Asian philosophy that states that mental defects are transmitted from generation to generation. He learns that one of his...

Direction Toshio Matsumoto

Synopsis A short film about this famous piece of art doing with this special Matsumoto's style.

Direction Toshio Matsumoto

Direction Toshio Matsumoto

Direction Toshio Matsumoto

Direction Toshio Matsumoto

Direction Toshio Matsumoto

Synopsis Magnetic Scramble is the first video work by Toshio Matsumoto. Here, the artist manipulates television images (of student demonstrations against the U.S.-Japan Security Pact) by holding a magnetic coil next to the monitor. Matsumoto later incorporated this piece into a...

Direction Toshio Matsumoto

Cast Kiyoshi Kobayashi

Synopsis 16mm half-length film commissioned by the Japan Sake and Shochu Makers Association.

Direction Toshio Matsumoto

Direction Toshio Matsumoto

Synopsis Early experimental PR “cine-poem” by Toshio Matsumoto. Commissioned by Kansai Electricity, the film paints an abstract, near-wordless retelling of the development of power stations in Japan, through to the presumed oncoming advent of nuclear power.

Direction Toshio Matsumoto