Toshio Matsumoto — Director (26)
Movie
Phantom (1975)
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Toshio Matsumoto
actor:
Naka Fuyuki
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Budhadeb Chaudri
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other title:
幻影
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ファントム 幻妄
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A psychedelic yoga lesson with some beautiful and bizarre visuals.
Movie
Expansion - Kakuchou (1972)
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other title:
扩张
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Kakuchou
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Expansion remixes the images of Matsumoto’s Esctasis into an more colourful psychedelic short.
Movie
Atman (1975)
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other title:
阿特曼
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Atomanu
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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). Shooting frame-by-frame the filmmaker set up an increasingly rapid circular motion. ĀTMAN is an early Buddhist deity often connected with destruction; the Japanese aspect is stressed by the devil mask of Hangan, from the Noh, and by using both Noh music and the general principle of acceleration often associated with Noh drama.
Movie
White Hole (1979)
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other title:
白洞
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ホワイトホール（映画）
1979 film by Toshio Matsumoto
Movie
Enigma: Nazo (1978)
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other title:
谜
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Enigma (謎)
Enigma is something of a more glamorous version of White Hole, with a wide variety of elaborate textures (often composed of iconographic and religious symbols) converging towards the centre of the screen.
Movie
Ki = Breathing (1980)
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Toshio Matsumoto
actor:
Hiroko Horiuchi
other title:
呼吸
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Ki or Breathing
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'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.
Movie
Everything Visible Is Empty (1975)
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other title:
色即是空
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Siki soku ze ku
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There's more to picture than meets the eye in this journey into oriental metaphysical imagery. Starting (in a very Christian manner) with the Word, the film draws an explosion of visible forms, as if a sign of the shattering of shapes in the mundane world. But time is cyclical, of course, and what was once a multitude of sensible realities must eventually return to the Word and, finally, to sheer Color. (Sound of Eye)
Movie
Andy Warhol: Re-Reproduction (1974)
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Toshio Matsumoto
actor:
Andy Warhol
other title:
安迪·沃霍尔：复制品
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Andy Warhol: Fukufukusei
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A kaleidoskopic image of Andy Warhol, presumably found footage from some interview, is slowed down and played over sudden pangs of screeching white noise. Warhol's own distorted, delayed, voice guides us through the gaseous hallucination.
