(25 March 1932 â 12 April 2017) was a Japanese film director and video artist.
Matsumoto was born in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan and graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1955.
MatsumotoâÂÂs first short was Ginrin, which he made in 1955.
His most famous film is his first one: Funeral Parade of Roses (Bara no SÃ Âretsu). The film was loosely inspired by Oedipus Rex, featuring a transgender woman (portrayed by Peter) 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. There, he taught experimental filmmaker Takashi Ito. 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 (Kyushu Geijutsu Koka Daigaku).
Matsumoto lived in Tokyo until his death on 12 April 2017.