Discovery of Image – The Era of Toshio Matsumoto
2017, Japanese. Directed by Takefumi Tsutsui.
A five-part documentary chronicling Toshio Matsumoto, the legendary filmmaker known as a pioneer of experimental cinema in Japan and also active as a film theorist, who exerted a profound influence on innovative film expression from the 1950s onward. Directed by filmmaker and critic Takefumi Tsutsui—himself both a filmmaker and critic like Matsumoto—the project was filmed over the course of ten years. Interweaving excerpts from Matsumoto’s works with an extensive series of interviews with collaborators and critics, the documentary retraces, through the figure of Matsumoto, the tumultuous decades from the 1950s to the 2000s across five parts, totaling 700 minutes.
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- 11h 40m
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- Japanese
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- 9 December 2017
- Original title
- 映像の発見＝松本俊夫の時代
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Discovery of Image – The Era of Toshio Matsumoto (2017) was directed by Takefumi Tsutsui and stars Toshio Matsumoto, Joji Yuasa, Toshi Ichiyanagi.