Toshio Matsumoto Movies

Tells the story of the samurai Gengobe, who seeks revenge after falling prey to the schemes of a geisha and her husband.

In late 60s Tokyo, Eddie, a young trans woman, is the favourite of Gonda, the owner of the bar where she works. This relationship provokes the...

A young man kills his bride on the day of his marriage and goes insane. He wakes up in an asylum with no memory, left in the hands of two mysterious...

Towards the end of the Second World War, a downed U.S. pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who await official instructions...

ĀTMAN is a visual tour-de-force based on the idea of the subject at the centre of the circle created by camera positions (480 such positions)....

Writes Matsumoto, "I used the Erekutoro Karapurosesu (Electro Color Processor), which is mainly used in the field of medicine and engineering, to...

Repetitive abstract experimental film. A bearded man flickers past a hundred times.

Expansion remixes the images of Matsumoto’s Esctasis into an more colourful psychedelic short.

An experimental short film from Toshio Matsumoto featuring Mona Lisa.

A young drifter and a precocious sixteen years old girl slowly form a bond in a small town haunted by its wartime past.

Avant garde/experimental film. A mesmerizing trip through the psychedelic vastness of space.

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,...

A documentary on sixties counterculture in Japan featuring Donald Richie, Tadanori Yokoo, Masao Adachi, Koji Wakamatsu, Toshio Matsumoto and Akaji...

In Connection, a static shot of the sky with moving clouds is subdivided into regular geometrical regions, which are then individually (and...

A psychedelic yoga lesson with some beautiful and bizarre visuals.

Magnetic Scramble is the first video work by Toshio Matsumoto. Here, the artist manipulates television images (of student demonstrations against the...

A short documentary about a trailer weighing over 300 tons that carries material for the construction of a dam toward Tokyo.

By cutting up and zoom in on images of facades creates Matsumoto visual effects.

A surrealist commercial for bicycles.

The Weavers of Nishijin captures the process of traditional textile manufacture in Nishijin.