Toshio Matsumoto Movies

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...

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

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...

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

An experimental short film from Toshio Matsumoto featuring Mona Lisa.

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)....

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

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

A surrealist commercial for bicycles.

Two chaotic series of images, one for each eye. Hipster living, malformed fetuses, war, arts events and pop culture stands for the material.

A psychedelic yoga lesson with some beautiful and bizarre visuals.

Documentary about the relationships between mothers and their children.

Matsumoto's last video was produced by Sano Gallery. Matsumoto set the common theme as “Seeing” in 2009, six co-writers participated to...

While extracting and polishing their blocks of stone, stonecutters used to say “the stone is coming to life". This paradox provided Matsumoto...

A kaleidoskopic image of Andy Warhol, presumably found footage from some interview, is slowed down and played over sudden pangs of screeching white...

'Ki or Breathing' is a spare concoction assembled from slow motion shots of nature and set to a score by the much-acclaimed Tohru Takemitsu.

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

Pictures from a Buddhist temple cut up and manipulated.

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